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Can someone please help me?
When I bought my computer WordPerfect was installed. I used it for a while
and then bought Microsoft XP. I would love to move all the files in WordPerfect to my XP and get rid of WordPerfect. Any templates I download automatically go to WordPerfect. How do I get them to download in Microsoft XP? -- JillyBB |
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Can someone please help me?
"JillyBB" (donotspam) wrote in message
... When I bought my computer WordPerfect was installed. I used it for a while and then bought Microsoft XP. I would love to move all the files in WordPerfect to my XP and get rid of WordPerfect. Any templates I download automatically go to WordPerfect. How do I get them to download in Microsoft XP? -- JillyBB Word Perfect is a word processor. Windows XP is an operating system. Is Microsoft Word installed? -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM Reply in Newsgroup, not by email. |
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Can someone please help me?
I am sorry to have to reply but I don't know how to get into newsgroups. I
have Microsoft Works installed. Is that the same as Microsoft Word? Thank you for your help. I am so totally lost. LOL -- JillyBB "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote: "JillyBB" (donotspam) wrote in message ... When I bought my computer WordPerfect was installed. I used it for a while and then bought Microsoft XP. I would love to move all the files in WordPerfect to my XP and get rid of WordPerfect. Any templates I download automatically go to WordPerfect. How do I get them to download in Microsoft XP? -- JillyBB Word Perfect is a word processor. Windows XP is an operating system. Is Microsoft Word installed? -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM Reply in Newsgroup, not by email. |
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Can someone please help me?
JillyBB wrote:
I am sorry to have to reply but I don't know how to get into newsgroups. I have Microsoft Works installed. Is that the same as Microsoft Word? Thank you for your help. I am so totally lost. LOL Microsoft Works would meet many people's word processing, spreadsheet and database needs, but is a different and significantly less expensive package with a smaller set of capabilities than Microsoft Word and the other Microsoft Office Suite applications. Some people have chosen to use the free OpenOffice suite, which is more powerful than the applications in Microsoft Works. Available from http://www.openoffice.org/ A news account can be added to access Microsoft's peer support groups with the Outlook Express mail client/news reader that's included with Windows XP. Set the server name to msnews.microsoft.com and the default port number 119. A password is not required. The "add account" process in Outlook Express is pretty straight forward. The microsoft.public groups on that server are mirrored in a web based form at http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx. Look for the "All groups by name" link near the bottom right. |
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On Fri, 9 May 2008 07:24:15 -0700, JillyBB
(donotspam) wrote: When I bought my computer WordPerfect was installed. I used it for a while and then bought Microsoft XP. I would love to move all the files in WordPerfect to my XP and get rid of WordPerfect. Any templates I download automatically go to WordPerfect. How do I get them to download in Microsoft XP? You're apparently mixing up apples and oranges here. When you say "Microsoft XP," I assume you are talking about Microsoft *Windows* XP. That's an operating system, and has nothing to do with WordPerfect. WordPerfect is a word processor (one made by Corel), and can run within Windows XP, just as it can run within other operating systems. If you don't like WordPerfect and would like to use another word processor instead, that's your choice (although personally, I think WordPerfect is the best word processor on the market). There are lots of other word processors to choose from, but you haven't said anything about which one you have, or even whether you have one. Again, Windows XP is an operating system, not a word processor. So, do you have another word processor? If so, which one? Depending on what it is, it may or may not be capable of opening your WordPerfect files. *Some* other word processors, but not all, have that capability. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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"JillyBB" (donotspam) wrote in message
... When I bought my computer WordPerfect was installed. I used it for a while and then bought Microsoft XP. I would love to move all the files in WordPerfect to my XP and get rid of WordPerfect. Any templates I download automatically go to WordPerfect. How do I get them to download in Microsoft XP? 1. Try first whether your Microsoft application (Works or Word or something else) can read WPD files (formatted for Corel WordPerfect.) This is probable, and if so you can "export" these files one by one in a DOC or other format convenient for MS applications. 2. Both WP files (type WPD) and Word files (type DOC) are grossly enlarged by all sorts of formatting features 95 per cent of users never need. If you need to save space in long-term storage, export these files in ASCII format (TXT files) to minimize the space they fill. 3. WordPerfect runs OK under Windows XP (which has a "compatibility" module to adapt older software) so if you have the WP CD you can instal it yourself. It would be tedious to use TXT or some other intermediate format, but there are probably some public-domain third-party utilities which may be helpful for this (cf. the slowness of both WP and Word and all elaborate word processors.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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"JillyBB" (donotspam) wrote in message
news I am sorry to have to reply but I don't know how to get into newsgroups. I have Microsoft Works installed. Is that the same as Microsoft Word? Thank you for your help. I am so totally lost. LOL -- JillyBB "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote: "JillyBB" (donotspam) wrote in message ... When I bought my computer WordPerfect was installed. I used it for a while and then bought Microsoft XP. I would love to move all the files in WordPerfect to my XP and get rid of WordPerfect. Any templates I download automatically go to WordPerfect. How do I get them to download in Microsoft XP? -- JillyBB Word Perfect is a word processor. Windows XP is an operating system. Is Microsoft Word installed? -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM Reply in Newsgroup, not by email. Jilly Forget Microsoft Works. go to this web site, download and then run Open Office 2.4. It will open and read WordPerfect documents and a whole bunch more. http://download.openoffice.org/index.html -- Mike Hall - MVP How to construct a good post.. http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm How to use the Microsoft Product Support Newsgroups.. http://support.microsoft.com/default...help&style=toc Mike's Window - My Blog.. http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx |
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Jilly, your posting was a little confusing: Did you buy buy a new computer
that had Microsoft XP Operating system on it, or, did you have a new operating system (Microsoft XP) installed on the computer that you already owned, which already had WordPerfect files on it?? If you bought a new computer that runs on XP Operating system but does not have the Corel Word Perfect software, you will need to either install the Word Perfect word processing software on your new computer, or you will need to get another word processing program that will import the Word Perfect files. As other posters indicated, XP is the basic operating system on your computer and you can use any number of word processing programs with XP. Some other posters have given you some links to get those programs. I used Microsoft works years ago and found it to be easy and simple to use. It depends on how complicated your word processing needs are. "JillyBB" wrote: When I bought my computer WordPerfect was installed. I used it for a while and then bought Microsoft XP. I would love to move all the files in WordPerfect to my XP and get rid of WordPerfect. Any templates I download automatically go to WordPerfect. How do I get them to download in Microsoft XP? -- JillyBB |
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