1. Hold down the option key while highlighting the file and choose "Open With"----navigate to WP 3.5e 2. If that does not work, consider using MacLink Plus...
After 20 years of frustration and rage, I have switched to a Mac (a G4 mini). But I have always written in WP (most recently v. 11) and don't want to have to...
Use a utility to examine the Creator and Type codes of one of the old documents. They should be WPC2 and WPD2, respectively. OS X utilities that can examine...
... In Tiger, you can add a command to the Finder's contextual menu to open a file in WP: 1. Launch Automator and click on Finder in the Library column. 2. In...
Welcome to Mac WP! Once installed it is a very reliable program, though might feel slightly outdated in looks compared to v. 11, but all the functionality is...
Randall Wilson has sent me more legal templates, so the Pleading Paper templates in the Files section has been updated to Legal Templates.sit, containing: ...
... "Open in WordPerfect.sit", free in the Files section here, is a drag-and-drop applet: drop one or more files of any type on it to open them in WP (WP may...
Before I began using OSX my favorite font was New Century Schoolbook scaled to 13pt type. Since the upgrade all of my old documents appear in a bold italic...
... Or it's a font mapping gremlin. You can use MetaMacro (free in the Files section here) to change that font to any other font, in any number of WP documents...
Within Finder, yes. And then double clicking on the file ought to launch it in WP. However, I know of no way to change the alphabetical sort in the Open...
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Feb 5, 2006 6:43 am
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open a terminal and type "ls -ltr" in the directory you want to see what was created last....
Thank you for your replies. Sorry I didn't explain my request more clearly. When I am searching for files to download from this WordPerfect Mac User Group...
... It would be helpful. At present they can only be listed alphabetically. I'll put in a suggestion to Yahoo to let us sort them by date. ... I put everything...
Lots of good tips. Thanks John! ... -- /s/ Randall C. Wilson, Esq. Legal Director Iowa Civil Liberties Union Foundation mailto:rwilson@... Ph: (515)...
You bet. But I forgot to suggest what might be the simplest solution. If that Century Schoolbook font was your default, you could fix the issue by changing the...
There is an item today on http://www.macfixit.com: "One of the most lamented aspects of Intel-based Macs has been the inability to run Classic (Mac OS 9 and...
... Getting a Mac ROM isn't the problem it would seem, since it is simply a file that is part of Mac OS 9. Mac's ROM's were migrated to being part of the OS...
Randy B. Singer
randy@...
Feb 8, 2006 1:29 pm
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This utility will open any file using WordPerfect. WP may or may not be able to read the file, depending on what type of file it is. Distributed as a droplet...
Hello, I’m running OS 10.4.4 on G5 Mac at work. I have my data files on a second hard drive in the expansion bay. The first drive is reserved for the...
(For OS 10.4 and later only). Performs a Spotlight search for text you enter, limiting the search to documents of types that WP can open. Choose a file from...
Anyone else have this problem with a second drive? There are apparently Spotlight issues with second drives; see a Google newsgroups search on spotlight (disk...
I have many many WordPerfect files from over 10 years of using WP. I have been booting in OS 9 to use them, and also I have successfully run WordPerfect in...
What's the nature of the files in terms of complexity. Do you use graphics/ tables/ footnotes or endnotes/ complex styles. All of the above present problems,...
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Feb 13, 2006 7:56 pm
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Hello to You All- I feel very lucky to have stumbled into this forum... After spending several frustrating hours trying to find the'Holy-Grail' of answers for...
better minds than mine will answer, but you need have no fear of WP Mac 3.5e. Especially in Mac OS 10.4, it is excellent. And there is support for it here. I'd...
Michael What do you really like about WP? If it's Reveal Codes or the extensively customizable keyboard, then WP Mac under Classic in OS X is the perfect...
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Feb 13, 2006 8:42 pm
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Virtual pc works rather well on a G5 dual. and, of course, that lets you keep the version of WP you are used to. Wordperfect Mac running under Classic is even...
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