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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...

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.

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.

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.

But will it SAVE in WP format?

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.