WordPerfect to Word: "The document name or path is not valid" erro

[Guest]

Hi all,

This may be considered a bit off-topic, but I need to convert large
quantities of WordPerfect files into Word 97-2003 format and some of the
resulting Word files seem to be corrupt.

When I try to open these newly created Word files, I get the error "The
document name or path is not valid."

Since most of the files convert without a problem, I'm wondering if there is
some content in the problem files that prevents the conversion to Word from
really working.

Of course, maybe that error ("The document name or path is not valid") has
some other cause--has anyone seen it?

And I should mention, finally, that I have checked and rechecked the
document names and path, and changed both of them--to no avail.

Thanks a lot!

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Benjamino

This may be considered a bit off-topic, but I need to convert large
quantities of WordPerfect files into Word 97-2003 format and some of the
resulting Word files seem to be corrupt.

Not off-topic at all (at least not to MSFT's idea what this group is
supposed to be about).

When you talk about "resulting" Word files, that means you have
converted them -- how?

When I try to open these newly created Word files, I get the error "The
document name or path is not valid."

Since most of the files convert without a problem, I'm wondering if there is
some content in the problem files that prevents the conversion to Word from
really working.

Of course, maybe that error ("The document name or path is not valid") has
some other cause--has anyone seen it?

And I should mention, finally, that I have checked and rechecked the
document names and path, and changed both of them--to no avail.

Since I've never used WP (knowingly ), I don't think I can contribute
much, but see the following articles:

WordPerfect to Word converters (and why none of them are perfect, by Hafiz)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WordPerfectConverters.htm

How Word differs from WordPerfect (by John McGhie)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WordVsWordPerfect.htm

2cents
Robert

 

[Guest]

Robert,

I converted them simply by choosing "Save As..." in WordPerfect and
selecting "Word 97/2000/2002/2003 Format".

I noticed that there is a dedicated conversion utility in WordPerfect Office
X3, but it only converts TO the WordPerfect format.

Is there a better way to convert the files?

Thanks,
Ben

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Benjamino

I converted them simply by choosing "Save As..." in WordPerfect and
selecting "Word 97/2000/2002/2003 Format".

Well, if you cannot open the resulting file at all in Word, there's not
much you can do (short of trying to copy the raw text out of the file --
but then, a save as: TXT (of the original files in WP) would be a lot
easier.

Of course, you can try other intermediate formats (dunno if WP offers RTF?).

The alternative is to try to let Word open and convert the original WP
file. Word 2000 has converters for WP 5 and 6, for instance.

HTH
Robert