[Solved] (answered, not really solved) WordPerfect clone wanted

[paladin42]

I had an older version of open office that was very compatible with wordperfect - could read and write wpd files and they opened fine in wordperfect. Unfortunately that computer died. I don't remember which version of open office that was. Anyone know? and know where I can download it.

I have many old WP docs I sometimes need to open and modify.

thanks...

[Hagar Delest]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

See if that helps: [Solved] Open very old documents (XLS and WPD).

Please add [Solved] at the beginning of the title in your first post (top of the topic) with the ✎ button if your issue has been fixed.

[paladin42]

Appreciate reply.. but a conversion utility would be too clunky for me. I had a version of open office (unless I'm misremmebering) that both read and wrote my wp files. As I recall, it also had a WP emulation so that the hotkeys were same as WP.

[Hagar Delest]

LibreOffice seems to open them: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/wordperfe ... ffice/3951.
I remember some talks about the emulation of WP but not sure there has been any code published for that on the extension site. I made a quick search and found nothing on the AOO extension site.

[paladin42]

But will it SAVE in WP format?

[Hagar Delest]

Not at all. This question has been raised multiple times in the forum and even if there are workarounds to open such files, AOO/LO cannot save in that old format.