Originally Posted by
nkedel
Huh? The file structure definitely changed between WP4.2, 5.1 and WP6.0 for DOS[*]; you could open older versions in newer. I used WP7 and 8 a bit as I had to support them at a job, but don't have any old documents to remember what the file format was like.
My bad. I should have said 5.1 for Windows.
[* I have enough old WP documents around
I have them going back to 1993
that I loaded the old Office Converter pack onto Office 2k7, and it has separate converters for 5 and 6. It can't read WP4 documents. ]
[** I also just realized that I should check if it could read my old AmiPro documents - it can, so AmiPro -> WP6 -> Word gives me a way to get at some old documents that were otherwise unavailable. ]
WordPerfect does have a truly amazing set of file converters built in.