[Hidden-tech] Word Perfect

[Rich@tnr]

Try LibreOffice - it does a pretty good job openning older formats

https://www.libreoffice.org/


On 9/26/2023 10:48 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via Hidden-discuss wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> So I have a client who has old files in WordPerfect. They were pulled off a crashed machine and I tried to open them on a Windows 11 machine. I tried Word, downloaded the new version of WP and tried that. Nada. Tried an online conversion tool. That didn’t work either.
>
> The question is whether her files are corrupted* or are her files so old that an even older copy of WP is required than what the current word processors can handle?
>
> *when they open I just see lots of characters.
>
> Thanks for your expertise.
> Annamarie
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