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Looking at the keyboard template for function key command entries, there are four lines shown. The top is "Opt," the next is "Shift," and the bottom one is...
4 Oct 1, 2005
2:34 am

John Rethorst
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Hey everyone. One of my profs is having a problem with his WordPerfect 3.5e. He has a Mac OS9 system. He can't seem to open any of his WordPerfect documents...
2 Sep 30, 2005
9:02 pm

John Rethorst
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With Star Office, OO 2.0, KWord, AbiWord etc. including Open Document format in their newer versions is it possible to include a conversion for this document...
1 Sep 30, 2005
8:45 pm

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Just swtiched to a Mac running 10.4 and was devastated to find out there was no WP. Conversion of old documents is huge pain. But forget about that for now. ...
7 Sep 29, 2005
3:27 am

John Rethorst
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I am a long-time user of WP for DOS and Windows but am new to the Mac. I have downloaded and set up WP 3.5 on my iBook G4 running Tiger and it works fine. I...
12 Sep 27, 2005
3:41 am

John Rethorst
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Working with our favorite word processor these days entails increasing amounts of document transfer with others using different programs, often on the other...
1 Sep 27, 2005
3:31 am

John Rethorst
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I'm just curious...has anyone ever approached Corel about buying the code for the Mac version so that it could be updated to OS X? This is not a market that...
8 Sep 26, 2005
10:29 pm

Randy B. Singer
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... When Apple first announced the move to Intel, and developers got their first look at the developer's platform for the WinTel machine, that all appeared to...
1 Sep 26, 2005
10:29 pm

Randy B. Singer
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I am a newly arrive refugee from Windows, getting to know my Mac PowerBook G4 for the first time. Wanting to keep WordPerfect, I have downloaded the files...
2 Sep 22, 2005
2:38 pm

Smokey Ardisson
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This group has helped me, but I'm still not out of the woods. I have dozens of wpd files on cd that I rescued from my old Win98 pc. I can't open them on my...
2 Sep 22, 2005
2:38 pm

Smokey Ardisson
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Out of the blue: Saving a WP 3.5e for Mac file to Word in order to email it as an attachment to colleagues, I opened it as a Word doc just to check that...
2 Sep 19, 2005
2:30 pm

Geoff Gilbert
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An author/journalist friend has an archive of articles and chapters written years ago in WordPerfect 3.1J. Under OS 9, she could use WP to read and work with...
2 Sep 19, 2005
3:27 am

Kevin McCoy
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Hey guys, I've just started playing with WP on my mac running Tiger. I've got all these rtf files on my computer created by textedit (or downloaded). The WP ...
5 Sep 18, 2005
1:04 am

John Rethorst
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The "Getting Started with WP Mac.pdf" document in the Files section here has more info....
1 Sep 16, 2005
11:41 pm

John Rethorst
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Hi, New member to this group... Anyway, I am awaiting the delivery of an iMac (running OS 9) I bought on eBay. I plan to install WP 3.5e, and am looking...
2 Sep 16, 2005
11:36 pm

John Rethorst
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Hi, Everyone. After nearly three years of using OS 9.2.2 on my TiBook on which Jaguar was installed, I have finally migrated to Panther, thanks in no small ...
4 Sep 16, 2005
4:28 am

Philip Utley
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I've opened over a dozen docs of various kinds including formatted letters, decisions, briefs, foot & end-noted research of both WP for the Mac and PC, and...
1 Sep 15, 2005
7:50 pm

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We just retired our old ASIP 4.3 server and put our new Xserve G5 10.4.2 server into production. One of our attorneys (who insists on using WordPerfect and...
8 Sep 12, 2005
8:21 pm

Phillip Jones, C.E.T.
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When I located the UltraClip 2.0 folder in System Folder > Prefs > WP, I hadn't realized that OSX's Spotlight does not index the classic system folder (unless...
1 Sep 12, 2005
3:26 pm

John Rethorst
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... wordperfectmac@yahoogroups.com eruditely mused the following: Thanks John, ... As mentioned later in the original post, I WAS unable to open it but ...
2 Sep 2, 2005
11:30 pm

John Rethorst
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... Actually I am unable to open the original file in WP (maybe I need to convert it), but he did send me an rtf file which also does not open in WP but I did...
2 Sep 2, 2005
7:46 pm

John Rethorst
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I am new to Mac (I am running Tiger on an iBook) but not to WordPerfect, which I have been using since 5. I am currently using version 7 on OS/2. I downloaded...
5 Aug 30, 2005
5:30 pm

John Rethorst
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A friend, who is using some version (v 11 I think) of WP for PC, creates a document which is a numbered list of items. He does this regularly and I need to...
2 Aug 29, 2005
7:35 pm

John Rethorst
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Gives WordPerfect a text glossary, supporting any number of entries with each containing any amount of text. Completely rewritten for version 2: easier to use,...
7 Aug 19, 2005
5:15 am

Smokey Ardisson
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... I answered this question for you on the other day on the macprofessionals list giving you all the appropriate URLs needed to get WP for Mac, but as I also...
2 Aug 19, 2005
5:13 am

Jim Purcell
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Hi I'm an experienced Windows user considering switching to Mac, which I barely know. I have thousands of WordPerfect files which I must retain and, ideally,...
12 Aug 16, 2005
3:12 pm

Smokey Ardisson
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I'm told the full CD is available, probably for a short time only, on the usenet newsgroup alt.binaries.mac.applications.retro. I don't know how authentic a...
6 Aug 15, 2005
8:12 pm

John Rethorst
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The Finder hack described in the article I found (by Googling) at the following URL has been helpful for opening WP files. I sure hope that things like the...
6 Aug 15, 2005
8:07 pm

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I've confirmed that WP for Mac uses the same encryption scheme as WordPerfect 5.1. Here's how to break it (WARNING-- requires use of OSX command line and some...
3 Aug 15, 2005
1:15 am

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Smokey Ardisson has contributed a great Applescript that lets you drop any number of WordPerfect for DOS or Windows files (i.e. with the file extensions .wp,...
1 Aug 14, 2005
4:26 am

John Rethorst
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