Monday, January 6
Google Search: grokosaurus Microsoft stopped issuing the converter, basically because they could never get it exactly right: the structural differences between Word and WordPerfect mean that there is not enough information in a WordPerfect file to enable a fully correct conversion into Word. However, in versions of Word since Word 98, you have the ability to open a file in "Recover Text from Any File" mode. If you do that to a WordPerfect document (any flavour) you get the whole text out of the thing perfectly. You then need to make a macro to race through and strip the WP formatting commands from the result. You can use many of these commands to apply Word styles, so you end up with a document in Word that is mostly correctly formatted. If you have to do a lot of this, post again and I will show you how to do it.
