Convert WPD to Open Office Document - convert your file now, online and free. This page also contains information on the Open Office Document format and the WPD file extension.
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| Device / Program | Open Office Document |
| Category | Document File |
| Description | Open Office Document is the default file created by the OpenOffice Writer application. OpenOffice Writer is a word processing program and forms part of the wider OpenOffice suite of applications. Writer differs from other leading word processing applications as it is open source software. The application is capable of the usual functionality associated with word processing such as fonts, styles, templates, drawing tools and mail merge. |
| Actions | WPD to Open Office Document - Convert file now View other document file presets |
| Technical Details | The OpenOffice Document file format was developed by the OASIS industry consortium. Files are saved and compressed using ZIP compression which generally makes the file size smaller than the equivalent file created by Microsoft Word and saved as a DOC file. Usually the file will consist of an XML file, directories and thumbnails. By utilising an open source compression technique, it is often possible to repair partially corrupted files. It is also possible for advanced users to edit the rate of compression, therefore achieving higher compression ratios. |
| Developed by | Microsoft |
| Useful Links | OpenOffice Writer Official Site More Information on OpenOffice Writer More Information on the Open Document Format Convert files to Open Office Document |
| Device / Program | wpd |
| Category | Document File |
| Description | WPD is a text document file format created by Satellite Systems International for their WordPerfect word processing software in 1980. It is a historically popular word processing file format, which can also be opened by most versions of Microsoft Word. Development of the DOS and Macintosh versions of WordPerfect were stopped in 1997 but the Windows version is still under active development by current owners Corel. WordPerfect was the top selling word processing software during the 1980's and early 1990's, and retains a big fanclub to this day (so much so that it was still the second most popular office suite up to a couple of years ago). WordPerfect has been acquired twice - first by Novell in 1994, and then by Corel in 1996 who continue development of the product and the WPD file format to this day. |
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| Technical Details | WPD documents tend to to primarily contain formatted text. WPD files produced in Corel WordPerfect, the company that have developed the format since 1996, are also capable of storing embedded objects such as tables, graphs and images produced in other applications. WPD files contain streams of text, and store formatting information using tags which can be shown as reveal codes in Corel WordPerfect. These highlight how each section of text or object is formatted at a glance, and are therefore useful when trying to determine layout or formatting issues. Like similar file formats such as DOC, WPD files can also contain mail merge fields, which allow information from an external data source, such as a spreadsheet or database, to be inputted into a template. |
| Developed by | Corel |
| Useful Links | Find out more about the WPD format Convert files to wpd |
Converting files for Open Office Document
Using Zamzar it is possible to convert a variety of formats to the Open Office Document.
Please see a list of supported formats below:
- doc to Open Office Document (Microsoft Word Document)
- docx to Open Office Document (Microsoft Word 2007 Document)
- pdf to Open Office Document (Portable Document Format)
- pub to Open Office Document (Microsoft Publisher)
- wpd to Open Office Document (WordPerfect Document)
- wps to Open Office Document (Microsoft Works Document)