John may know something about trashing your preferences in a system folder; I don't know for sure. However, you can try these: 1)Quit WP. 2) Re-open WP. 3) On...
I've been converting my late Father's Mac Word Perfect Files, and I'm down to a few that are Password Protected. They are sizable, and I'm assuming they're...
... WP encrypts, not just password-protects, files. There's no way around it to my knowledge, outside of perhaps a specialized data recovery consultant....
... Upgrading to WP 3.5e did not solve the problem. This morning a coworker found the answer: In the Classic Control Panel "Apple Menu Options" I had entered...
If you Google "wordperfect encryption" you get quite a few hits which jibe with my memory that the encryption scheme isn't very complicated and pretty easy to...
... Thanks for your kind words, and glad you found the problem. I think that Apple Menu Options has a couple of bugs, and deleting its prefs file periodically...
I have a similar question but with a small twist. I have one or two files that I made something like 20 years ago in Word Perfect for Mac 1.0.2. I don't...
... Download "WPApplianceFiles" from the link in the Links section here. It includes WP 1.0.x, which runs in the Basilisk setup included in WPApplianceFiles,...
... It depended upon where you bought the program. The US version used DES encryption, which when it was developed in the early 1980's was impossible to crack...
Am I wrong or do the programs seem to have moved from the links section? I can't find an earlier verson at the referenced website. Am I doing something wrong?...
... Just to clarify the responses to this messages: Unfortunately, absolutely NO tool exists for recovering passwords from encrypted WPMac files. Without the...
On my new MAC I have created a virtual machine and installed Win XP Professional 3 and Word Perfect Office 11. I have used WP for years doing medical...
... I *think* you're asking about moving files from one copy of WordPerfect for Windows to another copy of WordPerfect for Windows - not WordPerfect for the...
While there may be no tool to do it, I took a quick look at a file consisting of all a's saved under the password "a" (Mac WP 3.5e) and there was exactly the...
And this is exactly what I remember reading about WP encryption at that time. MacWorld gave it a C+ in regards to its security at the time. It offered some...
... The assertion here was that the encryption on Mac WordPerfect was better than PC Wordperfect ... doesn't look like it. It's possible it's slightly...
when using 3.5e in mac classic, is there a way to save a file in WP 11, 12 or X3 formats so a PC user does not need to convert the mac file? thanks for the...
... File | Save as... and choose as format: "WP for PC 6,7,8" and use the extension .WPD on the filename. The WP file format is the same in WP 6 through X4. ...
thanks... this group has been an amazing resource and has actually saved me quite a bit of money (setting up my sister to use WP/mac for her law internship...
On Sun May 17, 2009 10:51 pm ((PDT)), "badhabitbill" ... The WordPerfect file format is essentially unchanged since WordPerfect 6, so saving as WordPerfect PC...
If your sister wants to save most or all of her files in WP for Windows format, make things easier by using Edit Preferences Files and change Save As File...
I'm working into a dead end with this problem, as far as I can see. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My boss at work stores all of his invoices in...
... Unfortunately, the ONLY sensible way to do this is to buy a copy of XP (on eBay, probably) and to buy a copy of VMware Fusion, which runs XP in a window on...
Do you need to edit these old forms? If not, why not convert them to PDF files using Adobe Acrobat or a similar program? That way, they're readable on any...
... The original poster made it clear that they do need to be edited, and that the table math needs to be updated. He said of the Mac programs that he tried: ...
Two things you might try, but probably won't help much. Complicated formatting in Word is deliberately difficult to get just right, and MS doesn't publish...
I have used MacLink Plus Delux (not free) and have had good luck transferring Wordperfect files into Word. I cannot guarantee perfect format, but it does do a...
The only way you can completely be sure you preserve these files is to stay in WordPerfect in a Windows environment. Even if you were in WordPerfect and...
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