Batch convert WPD to DOC ?? Possible?

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My people had a borrowed copy of wordperfeft which is now gone, machine died, money is tight, licenses are now enforced so more unlicensed software. MS office is fully licensed, many Wordperfect documents exist. Is there a cheap or free way to batch convert the wpd to msword doc? Or is theree a ms office utility to do them all in one shot? One that will convert it and make them filename.doc from filename.wpd ? Opening and converting them one at a time will work, but will take much too long.

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Quote:My people had a borrowed copy of wordperfeft which is now gone, machine died, money is tight, licenses are now enforced so more unlicensed software. MS office is fully licensed, many Wordperfect documents exist. Is there a cheap or free way to batch convert the wpd to msword doc? Or is theree a ms office utility to do them all in one shot? One that will convert it and make them filename.doc from filename.wpd ? Opening and converting them one at a time will work, but will take much too long.

Why not just convert them as needed? I wouldn't trust a batch conversion completely. In the small amount of conversion between document formats that i have done I have seen pretty major formatting differences between the two versions. If I did a batch conversion, I'd still go though and check each document to make sure it's formatted correctly and no special characters are off.

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The source files would be retained in case of a major flamigo-up. (A flamingo up is just like a cockup only much much bigger)
This would result in the best use of time, opening and converting a wpd manualy only when the original is ruined, yet most will more than likely be OK.