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"Jo-Anne" <Jo-AnneATnowhere.com> wrote in message
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>I posted the following problem to the Word Conversion newsgroup but didn't
>get any help, so I thought I'd try here.
>
> I use both Word 2007 and WordPerfect X3 on my WinXP computer. Generally,
> when I want to work on a WordPerfect file in Word, I first convert it to
> Word 97/2000/2002/2003 for Windows--as a .doc file. I've always been able
> to open those files in Word 2007.
>
> However, after the Tuesday, May 5, updates to Word and the Word
> Compatibility Pack I've been unable to do so. The error message is: "The
> file is not the right file type, (WordPerfect 6.x)." If I then try to open
> these .doc files as WordPerfect files (specifying the .wpd extension in
> Word), they still won't open. However, if I save a WordPerfect file in
> WordPerfect (.wpd) format, I can specify that format in Word and open the
> file.
>
> I'd like to continue converting my WordPerfect files to Word before
> opening them in Word because that seems to maintain formatting better. Is
> there a workaround? Is this something I should report to Microsoft?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jo-Anne
>