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Word to Wordperfect no option to "save as"
I fixed the cut/paste issue by changing the compatibility settings however
we still cannot save as WP files. Saving as RTF is not an option as I'm not training 20 workers how to take 3 steps to do what they use to do in 1 and taking all the heat for a feature that SHOULD work. As far as this old conversion file does anyone have anymore info on this? Where, how to install, any hacks to make it work, etc??? "Genine" wrote in message ... Another option is to save as RTF as Wordperfect can read RTF files. Genine "Charles Kenyon" wrote: This is a problem with Word 2003 (and I believe Word 2002/XP). You need to get an old conversion file. If you have a Word 2000 or Word 97 installation you can probably find it. I do not remember the name of the file. I would hope that someone will post with the file name. I know that I installed it to my Word 2003 and it will convert to WP 5.0 format. BTW, the best newsgroup for this is word.conversions. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "revenge" wrote in message . com... I have a new install of Office 2003 where everything seems to work just fine yet certain Word features are just "screwy". Namely is the Save As feature does not have anything but Word, RTF, and Text if I remember right although I have gone into the Office setup and told it to install EVERYTHING especially the converters and such. Word can open a WordPerfect file however if we try to cut/paste from WP to Word we get an error of something like "file conversion not known". I'm not sure that error relates directly to the fact we can't save as a WP file but I suspect it is. Sorry for the cross post but unsure where this one belongs.... Platform: WinXP SP2 MS Office Small Business 2003 (fully updated) WordPerfect 2000 with SP4 I think I will mention that this same setup works just fine on another PC with Office XP instead of 03. |
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I found the information on my own web page (I forgot). The file name is
WPFT532.CNV. http://addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm Simply copy it over the file of the same name in the Word 2003/2003 installation. (Save your old file under a different name or on a floppy first just in case.) AFAIK, it works fine. It is slightly larger than the installation file, I assume that the larger portion includes the information needed to convert _to_ as well as from these files. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "revenge" wrote in message news I fixed the cut/paste issue by changing the compatibility settings however we still cannot save as WP files. Saving as RTF is not an option as I'm not training 20 workers how to take 3 steps to do what they use to do in 1 and taking all the heat for a feature that SHOULD work. As far as this old conversion file does anyone have anymore info on this? Where, how to install, any hacks to make it work, etc??? "Genine" wrote in message ... Another option is to save as RTF as Wordperfect can read RTF files. Genine "Charles Kenyon" wrote: This is a problem with Word 2003 (and I believe Word 2002/XP). You need to get an old conversion file. If you have a Word 2000 or Word 97 installation you can probably find it. I do not remember the name of the file. I would hope that someone will post with the file name. I know that I installed it to my Word 2003 and it will convert to WP 5.0 format. BTW, the best newsgroup for this is word.conversions. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "revenge" wrote in message . com... I have a new install of Office 2003 where everything seems to work just fine yet certain Word features are just "screwy". Namely is the Save As feature does not have anything but Word, RTF, and Text if I remember right although I have gone into the Office setup and told it to install EVERYTHING especially the converters and such. Word can open a WordPerfect file however if we try to cut/paste from WP to Word we get an error of something like "file conversion not known". I'm not sure that error relates directly to the fact we can't save as a WP file but I suspect it is. Sorry for the cross post but unsure where this one belongs.... Platform: WinXP SP2 MS Office Small Business 2003 (fully updated) WordPerfect 2000 with SP4 I think I will mention that this same setup works just fine on another PC with Office XP instead of 03. |
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Thanks I'll give that a try on this problem PC. It's the only one that this
is happening to so that doesn't make sense. The only thing I can think of is the order I installed WP, Word or a SP caused the problem. My laptop is running 2K and Office 03 and it works just fine saving as WP and i've got XP's with Office XP that save fine in any format, just this one PC is the problem child. "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... I found the information on my own web page (I forgot). The file name is WPFT532.CNV. http://addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm Simply copy it over the file of the same name in the Word 2003/2003 installation. (Save your old file under a different name or on a floppy first just in case.) AFAIK, it works fine. It is slightly larger than the installation file, I assume that the larger portion includes the information needed to convert _to_ as well as from these files. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "revenge" wrote in message news I fixed the cut/paste issue by changing the compatibility settings however we still cannot save as WP files. Saving as RTF is not an option as I'm not training 20 workers how to take 3 steps to do what they use to do in 1 and taking all the heat for a feature that SHOULD work. As far as this old conversion file does anyone have anymore info on this? Where, how to install, any hacks to make it work, etc??? "Genine" wrote in message ... Another option is to save as RTF as Wordperfect can read RTF files. Genine "Charles Kenyon" wrote: This is a problem with Word 2003 (and I believe Word 2002/XP). You need to get an old conversion file. If you have a Word 2000 or Word 97 installation you can probably find it. I do not remember the name of the file. I would hope that someone will post with the file name. I know that I installed it to my Word 2003 and it will convert to WP 5.0 format. BTW, the best newsgroup for this is word.conversions. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "revenge" wrote in message . com... I have a new install of Office 2003 where everything seems to work just fine yet certain Word features are just "screwy". Namely is the Save As feature does not have anything but Word, RTF, and Text if I remember right although I have gone into the Office setup and told it to install EVERYTHING especially the converters and such. Word can open a WordPerfect file however if we try to cut/paste from WP to Word we get an error of something like "file conversion not known". I'm not sure that error relates directly to the fact we can't save as a WP file but I suspect it is. Sorry for the cross post but unsure where this one belongs.... Platform: WinXP SP2 MS Office Small Business 2003 (fully updated) WordPerfect 2000 with SP4 I think I will mention that this same setup works just fine on another PC with Office XP instead of 03. |
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Hi James,
Followup set to: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...rd.conversions FWIW, there is no 'microsoft.public.word' newsgroup hosted by Microsoft on their news server, although there can be a group with that name hosted on other news servers. The WPFT532.CNV (WP 5.1 DOS) converter that included a 'save as' option was removed, by Microsoft as part of the security review in preparing Office 2003. It is not available either with the Office 2003 products or as part of the optional converter pack. You can get the old converter to 'play', by replacing the one in \Program Files\Common Files\Text Converters\ (167K) with one that is 233K (Wd2000) or 255K (Wd2002) and turn on 'Confirm Conversions at Open in Word to open a non .DOC file to activate it. Note that doing so is at your risk and is a 'use as is'. You can also obtain older converter pack filters through phoning MS Office support (http://support.microsoft.com) . on a case by case basis. Keep in mind that current versions of WordPerfect can read and write MS Word .doc files and that Word has never been able to save in WordPerfect v6 format (the format that is still in use in WordPerfect v12). There are 3rd party converters that can save in the newer WordPerfect format. ========= "James B" wrote in message m... I've tried all the following to date including the file copy thing: 1. Installed the converter pack. 2. Copied the WP converter (WPFT523) from a working PC to the non working one. 3. Copied the WP converter (WPFT523) from Office XP to the non working one. 4. Modify install of Office to "Install Everything" 5. Do a install repair. 6. Uninstall and reinstall Word. 7. Uninstall and reinstall Office 03 8. Change Options, Compatibilty to Word 02, 00, WP 5, whatever, no change 9. Modify install to No Converters, change back to full. 10. Uninstall Office 03 and return it to MS and install the free Open Office (just kidding) Not only can we not save in any format other than the typical but in the Options, Save tab WP is not an option either. I would add when I removed ALL converters we could still save in Works and older Word which seems weird. -- Let us know if this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* Office 2003 Editions explained http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx |
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