Wordperfect for Mac

Yes there was. Wordperfect 3.5e was available free several years ago. Since then, the now defunct Dataviz Maclinkplus has been good tool to transition data from Wordperfect to current word processors. http://www.neooffice.org/ currently can read many Wordperfect formats, and some other Mac compatible word processors may as well*:

http://www.macmaps.com/crossplatform.html

If you have an Intel CPU Mac, you also have very good virtualization options for running Windows on a Mac, or using WINE to put Wordperfect on the Mac*:

http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#WINTEL

PowerPC emulation options are more limited, and slower.

I had it on my 6320 Mac way back the late 1990s. Wasn't really all that adjustable or friendly next to Nisus and certainly antiquated today. If you have files in that format try NeoOffice and Word to read them.

Is there such a thing as wordperfect for mac???

Not for OS X.

WordPerfect is a word processing application. At the height of its popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was the de facto standard word processor, but has since been eclipsed in sales by Microsoft Word. WordPerfect version 3.5e for Mac has been made freeware by Corel, and can be downloaded here http://main.system7today.com/software/wordperfect/wordperfect.html . It is a great, free alternative to Microsoft Word!

WP will run with OS 9 & below. If you run a version of OS X that can run in classic mode, you can use WP.

 Cheers, Tom 😉

Using the free SheepShaver emulator, WordPerfect runs without problems (and very fast) on Intel Macs with all OS versions up to current (Mountain Lion at this writing). Recent additions by private supporters have given WP Mac probably the best outliner and regular expression search available on the Mac as well as a Microsoft Word converter and plugins for Spotlight and Quicklook. See http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac/

Yes, and you can download it for free, but it's compressed with StuffIt, and won't open on my system. :-(

Try The Unarchiver

jrethorst wrote:

Using the free SheepShaver emulator, WordPerfect runs without problems (and very fast) on Intel Macs with all OS versions up to current (Mountain Lion at this writing). Recent additions by private supporters have given WP Mac probably the best outliner and regular expression search available on the Mac as well as a Microsoft Word converter and plugins for Spotlight and Quicklook. See http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac/

If you download the Chubby Bunny version of SheepShaver, it comes with WordPerfect for Mac already bundled. The advantage of Chubby Bunny is that it's already set up and ready to roll. The OS is 9.0.4 - you have to run WP in that (it's fast) and then export to the Unix folder, which is the gateway to OS X.

From there, you can open the files using Libre Office (http://www.libreoffice.org/?gclid=CLq4nIXf-9ACFRVmGwodsOsGrw) and save to a modern format (but not WP, I'm afraid). On the other hand, if you just want to open and read the files, Libre Office would be enough.

Licensing of Chubby Bunny is questionable. LibreOffice will open Word Perfect files.

a brody wrote:

Licensing of Chubby Bunny is questionable. LibreOffice will open Word Perfect files.

Well, not really. Does anyone think Apple care who runs OS 9.0.4, licensed or not, especially as it's no longer available in any form or by any means, from Apple? Yes, you're quite right about Libre Office, but if you wanted to actually use W.P. as a piece of software, there's no simpler solution than via Chubby Bunny. Providing you're running it on your own paid-for Mac, why would Apple have any concerns whatever?