You can open your Wordperfect files in MS Word. Just insert the floppy disk. Open your Word program, then click FILE|OPEN and browse to your A:\ drive. Make sure that All Files (*.*) is selected in the Files of Type. Select the file to open.Then click OPEN. MS Word will then convert your file. Save it as an "RTF" file to have it available in the future. Lance On 6/18/05, Gold <silver9876@earthlink.net> wrote: > I have many old floppies with genealogy information on them > from when I had Word Perfect on old computer. > I no longer have Word Perfect and am unable to read these floppies. > Is there any way I can salvage this info? > I don't know anyone who currently has Word Perfect on their > computer so I can't access the floppies from their machine. > I have so many I think it would cost a fortune to have a tech work > on them. > Thank you. > Gold

SUCCESS. Thank you. At least it worked on the most important document. Haven't checked out others yet, wanted to say thank you. My experience just a little different from your instructions. The doc did open in Word but to save it I had to copy and paste it into a new word document. Thank you again. Gold ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance" <lance.b.4u@gmail.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] CAN'T READ WORD PERFECT FROM FLOPPIES IN NEW COMPUTER > You can open your Wordperfect files in MS Word. Just insert the floppy disk. Open your Word program, then click FILE|OPEN and browse to your A:\ drive. Make sure that All Files (*.*) is selected in the Files of Type. Select the file to open.Then click OPEN. MS Word will then convert your file. Save it as an "RTF" file to have it available in the future. Lance On 6/18/05, Gold <silver9876@earthlink.net> wrote: I have many old floppies with genealogy information on them from when I had Word Perfect on old computer. I no longer have Word Perfect and am unable to read these floppies. Is there any way I can salvage this info? I don't know anyone who currently has Word Perfect on their computer so I can't access the floppies from their machine. I have so many I think it would cost a fortune to have a tech work on them. Thank you. Gold ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== > To leave the list, click here and send: > mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > To leave the DIGEST, click here and send: > mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >