Joined: Oct 23, 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 6:05 pm Post subject: Word 95 & Wordperfect import filters
Hello All! Had no troubles installing and using OO on a 500MHz iBook with Jaguar. Works great!
My trouble is, I need to import & convert a bunch of Word 95 and Wordperfect files. OO doesn't seem to have these filters installed by default; at least, it didn't seem to recognize the file formats when I tried to open the files.
How can I install these filters? I don't remember the installer ever asking what components I did or didn't want to install.
Joined: May 25, 2003 Posts: 4752 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:10 pm Post subject:
All of the Word filters that are available are installed already. I believe Word95 files are handled by the Word 6.0 filter, but don't hold me to it
Right now there are no WordPerfect filters for OpenOffice.org. They're still in development, and aren't primetime. You may want to try looking through:
for more status. I believe it's a project on SourceForge. I don't know what progress, if any, has been made with it, but I know I've never compiled it on a Mac. There was a standalone perl script at one point in time, but I haven't seen references for that in a while.
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 8:51 am Post subject: Thanks!
Thanks for the info! It's a family member that has this need, and I don't think he'll be able to work with the wp project. I'll tell him to use a copy of MS Office to convert the files to Word format.
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