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Originally Posted by John F
Why don't you use WordPerfect and export to Word format, or import the WordPerfect into Word (I assume there is an export/import)?
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The file formats are very different; thus, an export or import from either Word or WordPerfect to the other is never clean and almost always requires a fair bit of cleanup, especially if the document is longer and/or complicated. Thus, the advantages to using WordPerfect are negated by the effort to clean the document and get Word to display it properly (or vice versa). By way of one very simple example, WordPerfect uses an alternate font to handle curly quotes (an older, wonkier method, for sure). If the computer has those fonts, Word displays the curly quotes fine. But when you send that file to someone else, if they don't have WordPerfect they won't have those fonts and things get ... ugly.