If it were me I would look at Libre Office on my Mac. If it could open those wpd files (a quick look at the internet is unclear what versions of LibreOffice will open up which versions of WP) then a shell file could be written to convert the files using command line commands.

  soffice --headless --convert-to <TargetFileExtension>:<NameOfFilter> file_to_convert.xxx

maybe:

  soffice --headless --convert-to foo.doc foo.wpd


On 3/3/13 7:02 PM, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
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Trying to help a user convert several hundred files, and just wondering what the most efficient way is to do this?

I followed the instructions below, but they didn’t work:

http://www.ehow.com/how_6137128_convert-wordperfect-word-batch.html

I tried Word 2003, Word 2007 and Word 2010, and never saw an “other documents” tab in the new dialog, even though I had all converters and filters installed. I’ve found a shareware program that looks promising, ABC Amber WordPerfect Converter; http://www.processtext.com/abcwordperfect.html

but wanted to insure there was no other cheaper or free way to do this efficiently before recommending the purchase of this. Thanks in advance for any thoughts,

 

Al