![]() Here’s another option: join the Yahoo! WordPerfect Mac group, and use their “Links” area to download a free copy of WordPerfect. This is your textbook sledgehammer-to-kill-a-flea solution, but it worked flawlessly. It happily opened every one of those WordPerfect files, and supports a slew of other formats (including Palm database files, of all things). (Here’s the official web site.) (Updated: The domain name has changed I’ve updated the link.) The download is just under 8 MB: hefty, but not onerous on a fast connection. The winner is AbiWord, a full-function word processor. That’s a pity, because it’s tiny and simple – two things I like in a conversion utility. One utility, WPConvert, works only on older versions of the WordPerfect format. A search on “wordperfect” in the OS X area turned up only two options. Especially if I can solve this problem for free. There’s always the venerable utility MacLinkPlus Deluxe… but I don’t own a copy, and I’m reluctant to shell out something like $100 for a program I very rarely need. And when you try to open it in OS X, you run into trouble. But every once in a while a WordPerfect file rears its head again. ![]() You're almost done! Watch your email inbox to confirm your free subscruption.
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