WordPerfect Document Viewer App Reviews

It worked once for me, after that it was dead weight. I was wrong, it works well. I just didnt know how to activate it. I do appologize

Downloaded, tried opening a .wps file… they said to rename extension to .wpd. did that, not working….

As an academic I used Wordperfect FOREVER and have hundreds of text documents that needed to be converted. Converting them in windows was painstaking at best. Although I found some glitches converting directly to word, I was able to open up long lost documents and see them in rich text. Then I just opened the ones I wanted to work on in word and saved them as word documents. Customer relations was not able to answer specific word issues, but they were very quick to reply. I am really thrilled with this simple app.

Nice I guess if youre trying to open 15-year-old wp docs, but wont open modern Wordperfect files..

Just downloaded the program today to convert some old (15-20 years old files). Installation was quick. It didn’t offer the option to open the program after installation and I had to search to find it. Operation is seamless thus far. Find a file, drag it to the small window and it opens. It’s then easy to save your file in Word format. I haven’t checked what it does to old formatting (I was primarily interested in retrieving the text, and that seems fine). I also haven’t tried it on password protected files. (Hence, my 4-star rating is based on the fact that it does what it promises to, but I haven’t used it enough to determine if it’s worth a 5-star rating). For the sale price, it’s a bargain to allow me to review these old documents so I can decide if I want to archive them, or simply get rid of them.

I am an attorney with a TON of wordperfect documents (literally 1000s) that I use for writing and research. I am constantly referring to my wordperfect database. I was so disappointed that Wordperfect is not compatible with MAC. I love using the MAC (OS X version 10.7) for email and web browsing, accounting, etc. But I cant work without easy access to my Wordperfect documents. Until now, I have had a PC along side my MAC in my office. Anytime I needed to view or edit a WPD doc, Id have to go to my PC, convert the doc to PDF, then email it to myself. Id get the email on the MAC, save it, and then edit the document in Pages. Obviously, this is horribly time consuming. But with the Wordperfect Viewer App I just have all my wordperfect docs on a external hard drive connected to my MAC. On the MAC, I access my wpd file using this new app, I save it to "RTF" format on the MAC. And then I open the RTF in Pages and can freely edit. I cant find any problems so far! What a timesaver!

This app ruines the document formatting and does not show all of the text in the document. Page width is gone, the page is as wide as the window. Page height and page breaks are gone, its just one long page. Headers and footers are gone. I recived a document with headers and footers that was 4 pages long in Word Perfect. However, in this program the headers and footers were gone, and, when I when to print, it was 9 pages long. I would not recommend this app if you want to accually see the document how it was intented to look. If all you want to see is the text in the body of the document then this app may be for you. It wasnt for me.

WordPerpect has been my word processor of choice. One reason I delayed buying a Mac was WordPerfect. When I finally bought an iMac, I clicked on a WP document. I was taken to the WordPerfect Viewer app. I bought it and have been thrilled with it! I was going to buy Crossover Impersonator to run WP. I do not need it. I open a document from WP in the viewer. I hit Command-A, copy, paste into Word with a template with outlines on it, and keep destination formatting. With little effort, I have the outline I wanted. Thank you for developing this tool that has made my Mac transition a delight!

When I switched to Mac a few years ago I had some "orphan" WP files. I bought a version of WP for Mac but since I prefer Pages I basically abandoned these files. This week I really needed to open one but my WP programme was missing. WordPerfect Viewer really came to the rescue and was so easy to use that I converted ALL the old files in a very short time.

The document “.wps” could not be opened. WordPerfect Viewer cannot open files in the “Pages Document” format.

Better off using NEO-OFFICE which is free full featured word-processor. This is a waste of time, hardly retain the original formating compared to Neo Office. Way overpriced! Wish i have donated the $10 to neo office.

I had some very old WordPerfect for Mac files that I wanted to dust off and this app opened them like a champ. I simply needed to add the .wpd extension to them and WordPerfect Viewer did the rest. Awesome job!

I only need to open and view WPD files. It works decently. Apostrophes have funny code in place of them, but its good enough for what I do. $10 is probably pushing it, but its worth it for me.

I just flushed $10 completely down the potty. This application is worthless to me since it will not open WordPerfect files created with WP 3.5 for the mac. I still have an old mac with WP 3.5 that ran under System 9, but was hoping to work with these WP files on my modern OS 10 mac. It is unfortunate that you cannot try these applications on your files before wasting hard-earned money on them. At least the developers should state the limits of the application and for a translating program such as this one, what it cannot not do.

I used WPD in 2005 to create documents and the viewer will not open them. I have no idea why. They are password protected so maybe the viewer cant access them? Either way, 10 dollars wasted.

I too have many YEARS worth of Corel files and I was afraid of making that move to Mac and to Word. BEWARE - as other reviewers have said, this program wont recognize the formatting, which is really too bad. It would be great if it did but thats just not the way it is. But its so much quicker to open a file with this program to view it, and then copy and paste into Word and reformat than it is to open it in Corel using Parallels (which is taking forever) that its not as big of a deal as I thought it would be. Im happy to have this program. Just being able to quickly view files and see if they are worth keeping or not is well worth the $10.

The legal profession is still someplace in the dark days of the 20th century and that means there are still piles of Wordperfect documents that need to be read. This application does exactly what is says, you can view WordPerfect documents. It works, well worth $10.

I should have just burned the 9.99 instead of throwing it at this failed attempt to read WP files. I expected much more than a bunch of unformatted text. No formatting whatsoever. This program is a complete waste of money. If you want an inexpensive alternative try Neo Office. Much better and they are always tweaking their product for better performance.

Just like that, I no longer need to keep my old notebook PC around just to decode even older WordPerfect docs. I miss WP, but I wont miss that Dell notebook.

opened doc but all the fonts was lost , so ended up with a jumble of words and they were not Perfect. What a total waste of $10.00