[Papyrus-L] importing into Word Perfect 10

[Raisa Deber]

At 09:44 PM 9/7/2002 -0400, Joseph Cain wrote:
>I have just had occasion to list a selection of references using the Word 
>Perfect/Microsoft Word option and was astounded to learn that it would not 
>import into word perfect 10. I have been using it for listing in latex and 
>all seems so work ok there.

I'm not sure what your problem is, but it isn't a WordPerfect 10 issue.  I 
use WordPerfect 9 on one computer, and WordPerfect 10 on the other; I also 
use Word ; I frequently produce lists and import them into both, with no 
trouble at all.
One thought is the import/export filters in your WordPerfect?  Which have 
you set up (not everything comes in the default)?    What, for example, 
happens if you try to import an earlier WordPerfect file?  They refer to 
these as "file formats" and there are a large number of them, which you may 
need to explicitly install.  Check their help.

>I also tried in Microsoft Word but it asks for a file from the "premium" 
>edition, whereas we have the "standard" one, which will not supply 
>whatever file it wants.

Same difference.  See which import/export converters you have.  Word help says:

To find out what file format converters you have installed Look in the Save 
as type box (Save As command, File menu) for the list of converters. If you 
don't see the converter you need, you can see a list of converters 
available with Microsoft Word. You can install these converters by running 
the Installer.
There are more converters available, free, on their update web site.
>  I have no trouble seeing the file using Quick Look plus which identifies 
> it as a Word Perfect 5.0 file.
>
>I am using version 7.0.16c on a PC under Windows ME.
>
>Does anyone have a way to get the output listed file with formatting into 
>WP10?

Hope this helps.  Microsoft has a habit of taking out conversions unless 
you explicitly ask for them; that may have occurred when you put in the new 
operating system.  It seems more likely that it happened when you installed 
WordPerfect and didn't specify the filters.
Good luck.
Raisa Deber



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