Word/Wordperfect

[brickman]

It seems that some documents created in Word open in Wordperfect and
viceversa without me doing anything. I get that "File conversion in progress"
all the time, do I have an incorrect setting somewhere? Does this sound
familiar?
Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

It seems that some documents created in Word open in Wordperfect and
viceversa without me doing anything. I get that "File conversion in
progress" all the time, do I have an incorrect setting somewhere?
Does this sound familiar?

Are you saving them in their converted format (the native format of the word
processor of your choice) or just saving them back the way they were opened?

 

[witan]

It seems that some documents created in Word open in Wordperfect and
viceversa without me doing anything. I get that "File conversion in progress"
all the time, do I have an incorrect setting somewhere? Does this sound
familiar?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Are you having the same extension ("doc") for both programs? If so,
configure WordPerfect to "save" with extension "wpd", and your problem
maybe solved.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

It seems that some documents created in Word open in Wordperfect and
viceversa without me doing anything. I get that "File conversion in progress"
all the time, do I have an incorrect setting somewhere? Does this sound
familiar?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Some documents, but not others?

What program opens (or in some cases, *tries* to open) a document
depends on the extension of the file name (the last three or four
characters, after the dot), not on what program created it.

A file created in Word normally has the extension .doc (or in Word
2007, .docx), and one created in WordPerfect normally has the
extension .wpd.

So if a file created in Word opens in WordPerfect, almost certainly it
was saved as a WordPerfect document, and given the extension .wpd. And
if a file created in WordPerfect opens in Word, it was saved as a Word
document and given the .doc extension.