OpenOffice is an open source suite that can read WordPerfect documents. If you wish to pursue a solution on your own computer (and Word doesn't open the file for you), see below. If the problem persists, you may wish to use one of our public access PC computers to convert the WordPerfect document to Word. If you use a Windows laptop and double-clicking on the document doesn't open it in Word, try using the File Open feature inside Word you may need to select 'All File Types' in the Open File dialog window.

For instance, the current version of Word for Mac does not import WordPerfect documents. Students may find that their Word will not convert a WordPerfect document that they need to read. WordPerfect was pervasive in legal and academic settings for many years (most notably for its 'reveal codes' feature that provides a handy view into the formatting applied to text). Some faculty and staff members of the law school use Corel WordPerfect as their word processing software, or may have older documents still in this format.

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