WordPerfect Document Viewer at Mac App Store analyse

It worked once for me, after that it was dead weight. I was wrong, it works well. I just didnt know how to activate it. I do appologize

Downloaded, tried opening a .wps file… they said to rename extension to .wpd. did that, not working….

As an academic I used Wordperfect FOREVER and have hundreds of text documents that needed to be converted. Converting them in windows was painstaking at best. Although I found some glitches converting directly to word, I was able to open up long lost documents and see them in rich text. Then I just opened the ones I wanted to work on in word and saved them as word documents. Customer relations was not able to answer specific word issues, but they were very quick to reply. I am really thrilled with this simple app.

Nice I guess if youre trying to open 15-year-old wp docs, but wont open modern Wordperfect files..

Just downloaded the program today to convert some old (15-20 years old files). Installation was quick. It didn’t offer the option to open the program after installation and I had to search to find it. Operation is seamless thus far. Find a file, drag it to the small window and it opens. It’s then easy to save your file in Word format. I haven’t checked what it does to old formatting (I was primarily interested in retrieving the text, and that seems fine). I also haven’t tried it on password protected files. (Hence, my 4-star rating is based on the fact that it does what it promises to, but I haven’t used it enough to determine if it’s worth a 5-star rating). For the sale price, it’s a bargain to allow me to review these old documents so I can decide if I want to archive them, or simply get rid of them.

I am an attorney with a TON of wordperfect documents (literally 1000s) that I use for writing and research. I am constantly referring to my wordperfect database. I was so disappointed that Wordperfect is not compatible with MAC. I love using the MAC (OS X version 10.7) for email and web browsing, accounting, etc. But I cant work without easy access to my Wordperfect documents. Until now, I have had a PC along side my MAC in my office. Anytime I needed to view or edit a WPD doc, Id have to go to my PC, convert the doc to PDF, then email it to myself. Id get the email on the MAC, save it, and then edit the document in Pages. Obviously, this is horribly time consuming. But with the Wordperfect Viewer App I just have all my wordperfect docs on a external hard drive connected to my MAC. On the MAC, I access my wpd file using this new app, I save it to "RTF" format on the MAC. And then I open the RTF in Pages and can freely edit. I cant find any problems so far! What a timesaver!

This app ruines the document formatting and does not show all of the text in the document. Page width is gone, the page is as wide as the window. Page height and page breaks are gone, its just one long page. Headers and footers are gone. I recived a document with headers and footers that was 4 pages long in Word Perfect. However, in this program the headers and footers were gone, and, when I when to print, it was 9 pages long. I would not recommend this app if you want to accually see the document how it was intented to look. If all you want to see is the text in the body of the document then this app may be for you. It wasnt for me.