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having problems with opening a .wpd doc - any suggestions?

By Chuck Prince - Apr. 21, 2008

I tried opening it in Microsoft Word (2007) and it wont work. Tried it in OOO and that doesn't work either. Any ideas on how I could go about doing this? Any plug-ins that would help??


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  1. By Sri Chandra on Apr. 21, 2008

    You can install writer perfect installer from http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/download.html and then open the wpd file directly from OOo. Detailed instructions here - http://user-faq.openoffice.org/new-faq/faqcompatibility/faqgeneralcompat...


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  2. By Chuck Prince on Apr. 21, 2008

    I just did this and it didn't work - it just opens the file with garbled data. I don't know what version of Word Perfect this was created in either - can't believe people are still using Wordperfect!!


    Any other suggestions??


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  3. By Sri Chandra on Apr. 22, 2008

    That's too bad. Here's something else you can do. Download Abiword (http://www.abisource.com/) - it's free and it supports .wpd files


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