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See <a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22499312/Batch-conversion-from-Lotus-WordPro-to-MS-Word-or-RTF.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22499312/Batch-conversion-from-Lotus-WordPro-to-MS-Word-or-RTF.html</a>&nbsp;and <a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22090304/LWP-file-conversion.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22090304/LWP-file-conversion.html</a><br />
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Looks like the first one decided not to convert but install a WordPro viewer; sounds like a much simpler solution but you would need to find a viewer.<br />
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Looks like &quot;KeyView for Lotus&quot; is a free download. I would search, download, test and deploy as needed; more research shows the most reliable places to find this are at lotus.com; see <a href="ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lotusweb/product/smartsuite/" rel="ugc">ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lotusweb/product/smartsuite/</a>&nbsp;and <a href="ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lotusweb/countries/latam/y2k/ss97sp/Extra/Viewers/" rel="ugc">ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lotusweb/countries/latam/y2k/ss97sp/Extra/Viewers/</a><br />
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Some additional items to consider:<br />
1. The installer is Kvlotus.exe<br />
2. Right-click, run as Administrator.<br />
3. You may need to run KeyView under Windows XP compatibility mode:<br />
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Personally, I have never done this but the LWP format is older and I am putting together pieces I can find because getting &quot;old stuff to run on new&quot; can be a challenge.
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Good suggestions N8iveIT.<br />
I used to use KeyView for Lotus documents, but that was way back before XP officially ended. &nbsp;It worked reasonably well but some layouts, especially tables, got screwed up on some documents.<br />
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Just for Info:<br />
Regarding the last comment by WCJC in the first Experts-Exchange question you linked to. &nbsp;After Lotus Smartsuite was discontinued IBM released a software suite named IBM Lotus Symphony in 2007. &nbsp;It was discontinued in 2012 and the development was handed off to Apache OpenOffice. &nbsp;LibreOffice is based on OpenOffice but development &quot;forked off&quot; from OpenOffice. &nbsp;They are very similar in functionality and appearance.<br />
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It would be possible to create an automated process by script (probably vbscript) to walk through a text file containing a list of paths to *.lwp files, open each in turn, do a Save As, and close again. &nbsp;This would take a long time and would be very resource-intensive. &nbsp;There are other automation utilities like AutoHotkey that create macros but run from a single EXE, but you would have to learn how to use it first. &nbsp;It would be worth researching the Macro recording functionality of OpenOffice and LibreOffice and using it in the same way as Microsoft Office supports recording Macros and use of VBA scripts.
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I have a client who I have just upgraded to Windows 10 with office 365 however they have thousands of historical Lotus Word Pro .lwf files.<br />
Can anyone reccomend a file convertor to allow them to open in word?
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I have a client who I have just upgraded to Windows 10 with office 365 however they have thousands of historical Lotus Word Pro .lwf files.
Can anyone reccomend a file convertor to allow them to open in word?

Open Word Pro files in Office

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Windows 10

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