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Feb 27, 2012 11:12 AM in response to Csound1by Lexiepex,It will open the wpd files, I am not so sure about the earlier wp1...7 files, see MacFat.
Thanks Csound1.
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Feb 27, 2012 2:31 PM in response to FatMac>MacProby Tom in London,Anne from Emmett: by now you may be coming round to the idea that it might just be better just to go back to Snow Leopard.
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Feb 27, 2012 2:45 PM in response to Tom in Londonby Csound1,Tom in London wrote:
Anne from Emmett: by now you may be coming round to the idea that it might just be better just to go back to Snow Leopard.
Not everyone solves issues by giving up Tom.
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Feb 27, 2012 3:09 PM in response to Lexiepexby FatMac>MacPro,LexSchellings wrote:
It will open the wpd files, I am not so sure about the earlier wp1...7 files, see MacFat.
Thanks Csound1.
Or another solution. As long as the goal is to just open WP for Windows files, I just tried the WP Windows versions 2, 3, 5, and 6-8 files with LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ and it opened them all successfully as long as the .wpd suffix was present. The program lists .wpd files among the file types it can open.
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Feb 27, 2012 3:43 PM in response to FatMac>MacProby FatMac>MacPro,And one more option which I just discovered: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/mac-intel.html offers WPMac Appliance which is a prebuilt Mac OS 8.6 installation which has WP for Mac 3.5E pre-installed. Setting up SheepShaver, which is what this uses, can be something of a pain, but this just works.
I wonder if annefromemmett is still listening...
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Feb 27, 2012 11:55 PM in response to Csound1by Tom in London,I guess it all depends how much time you have. Most people have work they need to get on with and are looking for the quickest, simplest solution that works. Going for that doesn't mean "giving up". It means "dealing with a problem and moving on".
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Feb 28, 2012 12:03 AM in response to Tom in Londonby petermac87,Tom in London wrote:
I guess it all depends how much time you have. Most people have work they need to get on with and are looking for the quickest, simplest solution that works. Going for that doesn't mean "giving up". It means "dealing with a problem and moving on".
???????????? dealing with a problem and moving on, in this case, is an almost an oxymoron (which sounds applicable) Your's is a matter of taking your ball and going home.
Good Luck
Pete
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Feb 28, 2012 12:07 AM in response to FatMac>MacProby Lexiepex,Hi FatMac, I have checked all now: LibreOffice/OpenOffice/NeoOffice (in Mac) exactly the same. So reading is possible, as you demonstrated.
In my installations, the wpd under "Save As" is still not there (but who wants to save as wpd?). It will save the file in other formats, the "Save" and "Save All" menu entries are greyed out.
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Feb 28, 2012 2:46 AM in response to Tom in Londonby thomas_r.,I guess it all depends how much time you have.
In the amount of time you have spent repeatedly disparaging Lion on these forums, you could have fixed your problems with it by now.
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Feb 28, 2012 3:28 AM in response to Tom in Londonby Terence Devlin,Seems to me you could do an AppleScript to do your updating in less time that it takes to revert.
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Feb 28, 2012 2:17 PM in response to thomas_r.by Tom in London,Thomas A Reed wrote:
I guess it all depends how much time you have.
In the amount of time you have spent repeatedly disparaging Lion on these forums, you could have fixed your problems with it by now.
You're just going to have to get used to it, aren't you?
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Feb 28, 2012 2:18 PM in response to petermac87by Tom in London,There's no apostrophe in "yours". Not ever. In no circumstances.
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Feb 28, 2012 2:42 PM in response to Tom in Londonby Terence Devlin,Shouldn't that be 'In any circumstances' ?
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May 28, 2012 12:17 PM in response to FatMac>MacProby jrethorst,★Helpful> I don't know about AppleWorks but take a look at SheepShaver
> http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver which will let you run
> Classic Mac software such as WordPerfect. I have WP 3.5 Enhanced
> running in OS 9.04 right now inside of Snow Leopard. Setting it up can
> be a bit tricky but it's nice to see friendly faces again.
The Sheepshaver-WordPerfect packages at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac/ are easy to set up. They run the last version of WordPerfect for the Mac on any OS from 10.4 on. Hundreds of third-party enhancements include Microsoft Word converters, and a 7000-plus membership offers expert support.
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May 28, 2012 2:59 PM in response to jrethorstby petermac87,jrethorst wrote:
> I don't know about AppleWorks but take a look at SheepShaver
> http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver which will let you run
> Classic Mac software such as WordPerfect. I have WP 3.5 Enhanced
> running in OS 9.04 right now inside of Snow Leopard. Setting it up can
> be a bit tricky but it's nice to see friendly faces again.
The Sheepshaver-WordPerfect packages at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac/ are easy to set up. They run the last version of WordPerfect for the Mac on any OS from 10.4 on. Hundreds of third-party enhancements include Microsoft Word converters, and a 7000-plus membership offers expert support.
This thread is over 3 months old. @ updates behind.
Pete