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cpgrabill
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on: June 23, 2009, 22:23
I just joined this group this morning for the purpose of finding out some needed info ASAP. So please excuse any lapses in etiquette I may commit from not being an informed member. I have WordPerfect 7.0.2.45 installed on a Windows 2000 OS. My friend has an old Mac (version unknown) which we are thinking about installing WordPerfect for Mac 3.5e on. The goal is to e-mail as e-mail attachments back and forth as we mutually edit .wpd documents. Will my friend and I be able to simply open and work on the transferred .wpd documents or will there be some kind of conversion operation necessary? Also, will there be any formatting lost in passing the document betwixt the two WP programs mentioned? Mmmm... I guess I should ask whether WP 3.5e, notwithstanding it's different OS platforming, is even going to be able to display stuff created in my WP 7.0.2.45. Thank you for any help and/or advice you can give me. C.P. Grabill |
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wove
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Reply #1 on: June 24, 2009, 01:25
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This is perhaps just my best guess. WordPerfect on the Mac uses a different format than WP on Windows. WordPerfect for Mac comes with DataVis translators, which provides the option to convert from other formats when opening. The DataVis package is installed by default as part of installing Mac OS 7.6 and Mac OS 8. All DataVis translators work with all DataVis packages, so if you have installed a new version on a later MacOS, the newer version would still work fine with the WordPerfect translators which are part of the WordPerfect for Mac install. The WordPerfect for Mac package can also do "Save As. . ", so you could save the document as text, or rich text as well. bill
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beachycove
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Reply #2 on: June 24, 2009, 02:32
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I believe that WP3.5 can open and save to WordPerfect 6 format, which is essentially the same as is used in the product even today. You can download additional filters from the Yahoo WordPerfect Mac group, which is somewhere you should visit for this sort of thing.
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