I suspect that what happened is that when you installed Word Perfect, a message went out to the computer, saying, “From now on, all files with the ‘doc’ extension are going to be WordPerfect files.” - but it doesn’t actually change the file itself yet. The computer looks at the extension to figure out what kind of file it is, and it uses that information to decide which icon to show, and which program to use when you double-click on it. The usual extension for a Word file is “doc” (short for Document), and for a Word Perfect file it is “wpd” (Word Perfect Document). On some computers these extensions are hidden, and on others it can be seen. But what is possible, is that it changed the icons which appear when you look at those files in My Documents, or in some other folder.Ī little background: Every file name has an extension (usually three letters long) which tells the computer what kind of file it is. There’s no way that merely installing Word Perfect would actually convert your Word files. I suspect that you’re a bit confused about what actually happened.
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If I delete WP圆 from the PC, will that solve it and would I lose the few/all(?) files that have been converted?ĭoes the conversion occur only when I open a file or have all of them been converted without having been opened?Īny suggestions on how to solve the problem? If I reload WP圆 onto the same PC will I be able to check a box to prevent automatic conversions and would that possibly restore the MS docs on the hard drive? Have I lost the Word files that were converted incompletely to Word Perfect? I haven’t opened any Excel files yet and do not plan to, on that PC
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Some large Word Table files have lost some columns of data meaning I’m having to rebuild and update them on another PC (HP) from which I had transferred the MS files a year ago. I failed to notice any option to prevent automatic conversion of Word files to WP圆 so now when I open any, they get converted to WP, almost instantly, and apparently get lost as Word files.
I recently loaded WordPerfect X6 onto a PC laptop (Lenovo) to be able to process some old WP & QuatroPro files that I thought had been transferred from older PCs.(They had not so I do not need the WP圆 which is good for up to 3 PCs.)
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