WPD → DOCX turns an old WordPerfect file into something Word can edit again, and most of the work survives: body text, tables, footnotes and page-number footers come across as real Word objects.
From real runs
| Element | Result | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Body text and accented characters | Kept | A WordPerfect 5.1 book note in Polish kept every ą, ę, ł and ż, and a Dutch hydrology chapter kept words like coëfficiënt and Pézenas, as editable Word paragraphs. |
| Tables | Kept | A 2002 EPA site-assessment form came out with 20 Word tables, with bold-italic row labels and the answers sitting in the cells next to them. |
| Footnotes, headers and footers | Kept | Footnotes became Word footnotes with automatic numbers, and the page-number footer on the EPA form stayed a live page field. |
| Equations | Lost | WordPerfect Equation Editor boxes are dropped. In the Dutch chapter five display formulas left blank gaps after lines ending in a colon, so the text refers to formulas that are not there. |
| Redline and strikeout | Changed | In a WordPerfect 5.1 test clause, redlined words came out as red text (#FF3333) and struck-out words as strikethrough formatting. Neither is a Word tracked change, so Accept All Changes has nothing to accept. |
| Paragraph styles | Changed | Headings look right but are applied as direct formatting on Normal paragraphs, so Word's navigation pane and automatic table of contents do not see them. |
| Hyperlinks and bookmarks | Lost | Links in a WordPerfect test document arrived as blue underlined text that no longer clicks, and the bookmarks they pointed to were gone. |
| WordPerfect graphics | Changed | Clip-art in WordPerfect's WPG format is stored in the DOCX as large EMF pictures: two images took 13 MB unpacked, and when we reopened the file they were scrambled. Photos and scanned figures were fine. |
| Fonts | Changed | Files from WordPerfect 5.x for Windows name fonts like 'Arial (TT)'. The DOCX keeps that name, so Word shows an unknown font and substitutes; select all and set the font once. |
A WordPerfect 5.1 book note in Polish kept every ą, ę, ł and ż, and a Dutch hydrology chapter kept words like coëfficiënt and Pézenas, as editable Word paragraphs.
A 2002 EPA site-assessment form came out with 20 Word tables, with bold-italic row labels and the answers sitting in the cells next to them.
Footnotes became Word footnotes with automatic numbers, and the page-number footer on the EPA form stayed a live page field.
WordPerfect Equation Editor boxes are dropped. In the Dutch chapter five display formulas left blank gaps after lines ending in a colon, so the text refers to formulas that are not there.
In a WordPerfect 5.1 test clause, redlined words came out as red text (#FF3333) and struck-out words as strikethrough formatting. Neither is a Word tracked change, so Accept All Changes has nothing to accept.
Headings look right but are applied as direct formatting on Normal paragraphs, so Word's navigation pane and automatic table of contents do not see them.
Links in a WordPerfect test document arrived as blue underlined text that no longer clicks, and the bookmarks they pointed to were gone.
Clip-art in WordPerfect's WPG format is stored in the DOCX as large EMF pictures: two images took 13 MB unpacked, and when we reopened the file they were scrambled. Photos and scanned figures were fine.
Files from WordPerfect 5.x for Windows name fonts like 'Arial (TT)'. The DOCX keeps that name, so Word shows an unknown font and substitutes; select all and set the font once.
We converted our WordPerfect sample (31 KB) with Office engine on 2026-10-20. It took 7.0 s and produced a 17 KB Word DOCX file, 46% smaller than the input. The engine raised 3 warnings, listed below.
Input · sample.wpd · 31 KB
31,331 bytes
Output · sample.docx · 17 KB
Word document: 365 paragraphs, 0 headings, 20 tables, 0 embedded images; fonts Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans
LibreOffice
soffice --headless --convert-to "docx:MS Word 2007 XML" --outdir out brief.wpdNeeds the WordPerfect import library, which the Debian and Ubuntu LibreOffice packages and the Windows installer include. A password-protected file fails to load, with no password prompt in headless mode.
WordPerfect Office
File → Save As → File type: MS Word 2007/2010/2013 (*.docx)WordPerfect reads its own equations and redline, so if a copy is still installed, export the handful of documents that depend on them from there and compare one result before trusting a batch.
The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Office engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=wpd&to=docx.
curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@input.wpd" -F "from=wpd" -F "to=docx" \
--output output.docxWord only opens some .wpd files, depending on the WordPerfect version that saved them and on which converters are installed. Converting to DOCX first gives Word a file it always reads, with no add-ins.
There are no codes in a DOCX. Bold, italic, small caps, indents, tabs and hard page breaks become Word formatting; codes with no Word equivalent, such as equation boxes and pleading-paper line numbering, are dropped.
WordPerfect draws the numbered rule as a page border or watermark, which is not read on import; a pleading-paper file we tested came out with nothing on the page. Apply your court's pleading template in Word after converting.
Open it in WordPerfect with the password, remove the password, save, and convert the new copy. We do not try to guess or break passwords.