From Word Perfect to Word

[edythe.haber]

Dear SEELANGers,

        I want to thank those who responded to my plea for help in
converting my Word Perfect Cyrillic documents to MSWord, and also to share
my results with anyone who might find themselves in the same fix.  A couple
of the suggestions worked, at least partly, but then, serendipitously (as so
often in Computerland!), I discovered the perfect solution.  I should add
that I am using Word 2000.  I'm not sure it works in earlier versions.  If
it doesn't, this is a very good reason for upgrading (to add my bit to the
discussion on Word 2000 that has been taking place in Seelangs).

        What you need to do is open Word, click File and then Open.  In the
box that appears, scroll down the "Files of type" box at the bottom and
select Word Perfect 6.  Then in the "Look in" box at the top, access your
Word Perfect files and highlight the document you want converted.  Then
click Open.  A message will appear saying that the necessary file to perform
this operation is not installed.  To install it you need to insert your
Office 2000 CD-Rom disc and click OK.  This I did, and -- lo and behold! --
there was my document, with all the Cyrillic beautifully reproduced.

        In case your version of Word doesn't have this feature, the next
best solution was offered by David E. Crawford:  Open up the web site
http://www.qsl.net/kd4whz/russian/.  In the section of the index entitled
Text Conversion, follow the instructions for converting WP to Plaintext,
then for converting Plaintext to MSWord.  This requires two steps and worked
for me only in documents that were entirely in Cyrillic or where there was
only an occasional word or phrase here and there in the Latin alphabet.  It
didn't work where the two alphabets were interspersed (as in language exams
or articles in English with quotes in Cyrillic).  To handle that, Michael A.
Denner's suggestion seems better:  to highlight the text and change it to
Timesse Russ, which is available on the AATSEEL page on Cyrillic and
computers.  Since I already have various Leed fonts installed on my
computer, I tried it with Leed Courier -- going from one Cyrillic spot to
the next.  Most of the time it worked, but not always, for some reason.  I
didn't try it with Timesse Russ.  Maybe that works more consistently.

        I hope this information will be helpful to others and makes their
conversion tasks less daunting!

                                                                Edie Haber

Edythe C. Haber
Professor of Russian
Modern Languages Department
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
(617)287-7578

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