The Batch Conversion Wizard referred to in the eHow article is only available up to Word 2003, and
is not turned on by default. Microsoft’s instructions on activating it and using it can be found at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826174 (or, use LibreOffice as Brian Baer suggests, or possibly
even download and install a trial version of the latest WordPerfect from www.corel.com and let
it do the converting – I don’t know if it supports a batch feature, though).

--George

From: Al Puzzuoli [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 7:02 PM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] Batch Converting WordPerfect files to MS Word?

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