"JillyBB" <wishfulme1@yahoo.com(donotspam)> wrote in message
news:E559BD59-A92A-4DA5-BF71-3D6A68709D10@microsoft.com...

> When I bought my computer WordPerfect was installed. I used it for a while
> and then bought Microsoft XP. I would love to move all the files in
> WordPerfect to my XP and get rid of WordPerfect. Any templates I download
> automatically go to WordPerfect. How do I get them to download in
Microsoft
> XP?

1. Try first whether your Microsoft application (Works or Word or
something else) can read WPD files (formatted for Corel WordPerfect.)
This is probable, and if so you can "export" these files one by one in
a DOC or other format convenient for MS applications.

2. Both WP files (type WPD) and Word files (type DOC) are
grossly enlarged by all sorts of formatting features 95 per cent
of users never need. If you need to save space in long-term
storage, export these files in ASCII format (TXT files) to
minimize the space they fill.

3. WordPerfect runs OK under Windows XP (which has a
"compatibility" module to adapt older software) so if you have
the WP CD you can instal it yourself. It would be tedious to use
TXT or some other intermediate format, but there are probably
some public-domain third-party utilities which may be helpful
for this (cf. the slowness of both WP and Word and all elaborate
word processors.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)