I’ll read thru the thread you referenced, but it seems a bit dated (2002). Some I may never edit again, but I want to archive them and PDF shows the greatest potential for longevity.Ĥ. And, PDF is preferable to Word if I have a choice.

But, I think I really need to get them converted before much more time passes. I will easily rename a bunch of files in a folder, but I have lots of folders, so this will be labor intensive anyway. I have a Renaming Tool that I use for other purposes. How do you create a Word macro to do this? My version of Word (Office 2007) will open a WordPerfect file, so I guess I have the proper plug-in already.ģ. How do you batch convert to PDF’s or is my version too old?Ģ. You could use a third party tool which is probably expensive but is specialised for this purpose (such as the DocXchange tool mentioned in the following threadįWIW, another time the question has been asked here previously there were some useful suggestions at the time. A couple of ways to do this were discussed here

The fact that the files weren’t actually converted is no big deal if Word can still open them on demand. doc and then Word would be the default program which opens them anytime someone clicks on it. This is going to be the cheapest option but you may need to search online for a Wordperfect filter to allow you to open the really old files if Word can’t open them directly. You could use a simple Word macro to open each file and save it out to another directory as either a Word or PDF document. You could buy Wordperfect and use that to batch convert the files to PDF or Word You have plenty of options for you do this.

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