I hate Word Perfect. Help Please

[Bebop Speigel]

I recently got a new desktop and it came with wordperfect. If I install MS word will it matter which version I install? Word perfect is confusing to me, and it messes things up when I save it as a file compatible with MS Word.

[ESALADUANE]

Word 95 and lower can't read Word 97 and higher (and visa versa) without a conversion tool. Here are some Word conversion tools, others can be found at the different support sites for the different versions of Word.
http://office.microsoft.com/officeup...CD010224971033
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/iss/fileconv/filters.htm

"Word 97 comes with built-in document converters, so WordPerfect 5.x documents should be automatically converted when you open them in MS Word. However, some files may need to be massaged a bit!"
http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/at/t...rd/convert.htm

Converting Word Perfect Files to MSWord for Windows
http://infoeagle.bc.edu/bc_org/tvp/a...P_2_Word.shtml

[jtj05]

Bebop, If you save (Convert) a WP document to an MSWord document on a system that does not have MSWord installed, it cannot associate with what isn't there/doesn't exist. Therefore the confusion, not only you but the system iself. I always loved WP up to 6.1, not the later versions though that tried to compete with Word. As far as which MSWord to install, alway's go with the "latest and the greatest" if you've got it. For the very reason that Esaladuane mentioned above.