One question I get asked a lot is, “What’s the best way to convert an existing WordPerfect document into Word?”
There are a lot of ways of doing this — some better than others. Here, I rate the choices from worst to best.
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Ever wish you could take a pdf that someone’s e-filed and edit it for your own use? (Yeah, me too.)
Well, apparently now you can at PDFtoWord.com … for free, even!
Only you can decide whether this service is safe enough for confidential client documents. PDFtoWord.com’s privacy policy states that files that are uploaded and converted are deleted immediately upon processing and never touch human hands.
But if you don’t want to re-type, and you like free services, you can’t beat this!
It’s bound to happen sooner or later. Someone — co-counsel, client, whoever — sends you a document with a .docx extension. You try to open it in Word 2003 or even 2002, but you get an error message.
Don’t fret — it’s an easier problem to solve than you think.
We’ve all done it — there’s already a WordPerfect document that you need some text out of (a letter addressee, a section out of a brief, whatever), so you decide to cut-and-paste from WordPerfect into your current Word document.
And the formatting in your Word document goes totally … WAAAAAAHHHH!
Here’s how to avoid that:
Microsoft Word can work with a wide variety of word processing formats. But there are some documents you cannot edit or even open in Word. Do you know what they are?
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