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I received an email with a .wpd file in it I need to open. When I try I get
a message saying;
This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this
action. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel.
Can someone walk me through on what to do?
 
Hi

It's a 602pc suite file. Try and open it with MS Word.

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Files with a .wpd extension are most likely Word Perfect files.
Ask the person who sent you the file to choose a format that you are
likely to have, (.rtf perhaps), assuming you don't want to rush out
and buy Word Perfect.

....Alan
 
hunt said:
I received an email with a .wpd file in it I need to open. When I try
I get a message saying;
This file does not have a program associated with it for performing
this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control
panel.
Can someone walk me through on what to do?
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This is, in my view, a very poor and misleading message. It assumes that you
have the necessary program installed and are just missing the association.
In reality, it's much more likely that you simply don't have the appropriate
program.

A .wpd file is a WordPerfect document. To read this file you either need to
have WordPerfect or some other word processing program that knows how to
read .wpd files. WordPerfect used to be commonly installed, but it's far
from as common as it used to be, and you probably don't have it. Whoever
sent you the file either didn't understand what you need to read it, or
mistakenly assumed that you had WordPerfect installed.

Ask the sender to save the document within WordPerfect as an .rtf file
(WordPerfect can do that) and resend it. Almost every word processor can
read .rtf files.
 
Ken said:
This is, in my view, a very poor and misleading message. It assumes that you
have the necessary program installed and are just missing the association.
In reality, it's much more likely that you simply don't have the appropriate
program.

A .wpd file is a WordPerfect document. To read this file you either need to
have WordPerfect or some other word processing program that knows how to
read .wpd files. WordPerfect used to be commonly installed, but it's far
from as common as it used to be, and you probably don't have it. Whoever
sent you the file either didn't understand what you need to read it, or
mistakenly assumed that you had WordPerfect installed.

Ask the sender to save the document within WordPerfect as an .rtf file
(WordPerfect can do that) and resend it. Almost every word processor can
read .rtf files.
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Whilst the *.wpd file is a WordPerfect file, Microsoft Office
does provide a converter for it. Of course, one needs to have
the foresight to have chosen it when Office was being installed.
 
Ghostrider said:
Whilst the *.wpd file is a WordPerfect file, Microsoft Office
does provide a converter for it.
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Yes, that's why I said "...or some other word processing program that knows
how to read .wpd files." I believe there are other word processing programs
that can do it too, but I can't remember which ones.

Of course, one needs to have
the foresight to have chosen it when Office was being installed.
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I'm a WordPerfect user myself, and far from a Word expert, but I believe
that the converter can also be installed after the fact. Someone please
correct me if that's wrong.
 
Ken

Office 2003 can already read Wordperfect files (wpd), and there was a
converter available for earlier versions that couldn't.. not even sure that
the link still exists even..
 
It is possible to 'save as' an RTF file in WordPerfect that can then be read
by MS Word.. you might want to request this if you have no luck finding a
converter..
 
Ken said:
This is, in my view, a very poor and misleading message. It assumes that you
have the necessary program installed and are just missing the association.
In reality, it's much more likely that you simply don't have the appropriate
program.

A .wpd file is a WordPerfect document. To read this file you either need to
have WordPerfect or some other word processing program that knows how to
read .wpd files. WordPerfect used to be commonly installed, but it's far
from as common as it used to be, and you probably don't have it. Whoever
sent you the file either didn't understand what you need to read it, or
mistakenly assumed that you had WordPerfect installed.

Ask the sender to save the document within WordPerfect as an .rtf file
(WordPerfect can do that) and resend it. Almost every word processor can
read .rtf files.
Click to expand...
 
Ken said:
This is, in my view, a very poor and misleading message. It assumes that you
have the necessary program installed and are just missing the association.
In reality, it's much more likely that you simply don't have the appropriate
program.

A .wpd file is a WordPerfect document. To read this file you either need to
have WordPerfect or some other word processing program that knows how to
read .wpd files. WordPerfect used to be commonly installed, but it's far
from as common as it used to be, and you probably don't have it. Whoever
sent you the file either didn't understand what you need to read it, or
mistakenly assumed that you had WordPerfect installed.

Ask the sender to save the document within WordPerfect as an .rtf file
(WordPerfect can do that) and resend it. Almost every word processor can
read .rtf files.
Click to expand...

This is the best reply that I have seen on this subject.

I used to belong to a computer club with everything from novice to a
few experts (the experts belonging to the technical side of things). I
just loved to learn, mostly by myself, how to use software.

I am digressing. Our Secretary had Word Perfect and we were constantly
getting email addresss updates from her which were in wpd format, and
which we couldn't open.

The only addendum I would add to Ken's posting is that we don't know
how astute the sender of the Word Perfect document is - or experience
in software, or file extensions.

The receiver of the wpd attachment should tell the sender, when she
saves the document to also use the scroll box, at the bottom of the
Save As Window, ( As a Word Perfect User Ken, you can correct me if I
am wrong - because I don't have Word Perfect) to select .rtf file
format to save the document, for sending to other people. If she
assumes that everyone can read her attachments, then she is probably
unaware that she can change the format to a rich text file which can be
opened in Word.

I am currently trying to teach a new windows user, who has no idea what
file formats are yet, let alone, saving in different formats.

Anne

PS I am still using Word 2000 and so long as it does what I need to do
I cannot, like most people, rush out or update it to Word 2003 etc. I
have many other programs I would like to get the newer versions of -
but this is impossible unless you are rolling in it!!
 
Mike said:
Ken

Office 2003 can already read Wordperfect files (wpd), and there was a
converter available for earlier versions that couldn't.. not even
sure that the link still exists even..
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Thanks, Mike. Yes, I knew it could, but it needs the appropriate converter
installed to do so. The converter isn't installed by default, but as
Ghostrider said, can be chosen as an installation option. What I wasn't
sure about was whether the converter could also be installed afterward.

I just checked. I tried to open a wpd file in Word, and it told me the
converter wasn't installed, and asked whether I wanted to install it. So I
was right that it *can* be installed afterward.
 
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