Open Old Files

WordPerfect .wpd to .docx and .pdf

Convert WordPerfect documents to Word

Contracts, theses and letters written in WordPerfect, moved into Word without retyping and without sending them to an online converter.

  • Nothing is uploaded: files are opened on your computer
  • Free to view, print and save as PDF or CSV
  • Works on Mac, Windows, iPad and Chromebook

Drop your old files here

One file, a whole folder, or a ZIP. They're opened on this computer and never uploaded.

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The converter downloads when you add your first file.

£6 one-time, no account

Get the Word file

Ready to convert: . Word and Excel files are part of the one-time unlock, along with whole folders at once.

  • Word files (.docx) of documents, with formatting and pictures
  • Excel files (.xlsx) of spreadsheets and databases, every sheet
  • Whole folders or ZIPs converted into one ZIP
Unlock for £6

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Why Word mangles some WordPerfect files

Word can open some WordPerfect documents, but older ones (especially WordPerfect 4.2 and 5.x for DOS, and WordPerfect for Mac) often come out with stray characters or lost formatting, or don't open at all. On a Mac, iPad or Chromebook there is nothing built in to open them.

This page reads the file with libwpd, the WordPerfect reader LibreOffice uses, which understands every version from WordPerfect 4.2 to X9.

What the Word file keeps

The .docx (part of the one-time unlock) keeps the text, fonts, bold, italic and underline, alignment, indents and tab stops, tables, headers and footers, and footnotes as real Word footnotes. Pictures stored as WordPerfect Graphics are drawn and placed in the document.

Prefer a fixed copy? "Save as PDF" is free, keeps the page exactly as it prints, and its text can still be searched and copied.

Legal and office archives

Firms that used WordPerfect for decades often have folders of thousands of documents. With the unlock you can drop a whole folder (or a ZIP) and get back one ZIP with a PDF and a Word file for each, in the same folder layout. Every file is opened on your own computer, which matters for client documents.

Questions about this

Password-protected WordPerfect files?

If you know the password, type it when the page asks. It is used only inside your browser.

Does it keep WordPerfect's styles and reveal codes?

It keeps the formatting the codes produced, as Word formatting. The codes themselves aren't carried over, since Word has no equivalent.

Which versions?

WordPerfect 4.2 and 5.x for DOS, 6 to X9 for Windows, and WordPerfect for Mac 1 to 3.5.

Free to open. £6 once for the rest.

Opening, reading, printing, PDFs of documents and drawings, and CSVs of spreadsheets are free, one file at a time, for as long as the site runs.

£6 one-time, no account

  • Word files (.docx) of documents, with formatting and pictures
  • Excel files (.xlsx) of spreadsheets and databases, every sheet
  • Whole folders or ZIPs converted into one ZIP
Unlock for £6

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