I've received a disk containing about 50 files created in Word Perfect
on a PC.  I'm a Mac person using Word.  Normally I would ask the
author to convert her WP files to RTF and I could go from there, but
that's not feasible.  No one I know locally still uses WP, sorry to
say.

Is there anywhere online that offers free conversion from WPD to RTF
or Word?  Barring that, are there any inexpensive software tools I
could download that would do the same and work on my Mac?  I really
don't want to go buy WP just to read this one disk.

I'm not sure about free utilities, but MacLinkPlus will convert
between practically ANY windows format to Macintosh format there is. A
list of all the filetypes able to be converted FROM and converted TO
(you do not need the program in question) makes it a must have tool
for any macintosh user living in a PC dominated market. It will come
in handy when you receive file attachments and the like in the future
and is very reasonable at only $99.

I checked around for translators that Microsoft might have written for
your version of Word, but a simple search on their site turned up two
dead links. My guess is they've stopped supporting Word for Macintosh.
You can check the search yourself at the link below.

Also, I tried to see if Corel offers a free trial on their WordPerfect
software for Macintosh just so you can open the one file, copy/paste
the text, and then be done with it. Their downloads page offers six
download links for their demo software, NONE of which work. *sigh*

So I guess we're back to square one which means you'll have to pick up
MacLinkPlus. That is unless, a generous mac user commenter is willing
to convert the files for you and e-mail 'em back to you. But
researchers aren't supposed to participate in extracurricular ga
stuff. One last thing you might try is to take it to your local Kinkos
or other document printing store. They should have all the necessary
software to read/write/convert documents because it's part of their
business when people come in with archaic document formats. Good luck!


Additional Links:

MacLinkPlus Information Page:
http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/index.html

MacLinkPlus List of Translators:
http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/mlp_xlators.html

Microsoft.com Download Center search for perfect (with non-working
translator links):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/searchdl.asp?Search=Keywords&LangIDCODE=20%3Ben-us&Value=perfect&OpSysID=244&Show=Recent

Corel.com Word Perfect Downloads Page (with non-working free trial
links):
http://www.corel.com/support/ftpsite/pub/wordperfect/wpmac/


Search Strategy:

wordperfect macintosh word conversion on google:
://www.google.com/search?q=wordperfect+macintosh+word+conversion


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skermit-ga

Thank you!  Good thinking on the demo, etc.  I was disappointed with
the Corel site but have bought from Data Viz for my handheld and have
been pleased.   I couldn't ask anyone to convert these for me for
legal reasons (proprietary data).  I ended up purchasing/downloading
MacLink because some of its features I didn't know about will be
beneficial to other tasks ahead of me, too.  I've already converted
all 50 files--and  the conversion took less time than it took to
restart after installing the program.  This is going to be a huge
timesaver for me.   I appreciate the help.

You're welcome!

This is perhaps not usable in this particular case due to the
proprietary nature of the files, but here's a site that offers free
online conversion of various file formats into PDF or HTML:
	http://www.goBCL.com