Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WPD file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert WPD to another file type
The converter easily converts your WPD file to various formats - free and online. No Word or extra software needed.
WPD to DOCX
WPD to PDF
WPD to DOC
WPD to TXT
WPD to RTF
WPD to ODT
Convert a file to WPD
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Text formats to WPD with high quality output.
About WPD files
A .WPD file is primarily a proprietary text document created by Corel WordPerfect, a word processor historically favored in legal and enterprise environments for its precise 'Reveal Codes' formatting control. While powerful, the format presents significant interoperability challenges today. Users typically need to convert .WPD files because they require paid software to view properly and are not natively supported by web browsers, mobile operating systems, or cloud viewers like Google Docs. Attempting to open these files directly in Microsoft Word often leads to formatting errors - such as broken tables, shifted pagination, or missing fonts - due to fundamental differences between WordPerfect's stream-based architecture and Word's style-based XML. To ensure accessibility and editability, it is recommended to convert .WPD to DOCX for modern word processing. For sharing finalized contracts or legal briefs where layout preservation is critical, converting to PDF is the industry standard. Less commonly, this extension may refer to legacy documents from 602Text or ACT!, which also require conversion to TXT or RTF for data recovery. Simply drag and drop your file to convert.guru to identify the specific format version and convert it instantly.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your WPD file.
If you want to convert WPD file to JPG, PNG, PAGES, TEX, LATEX or MD, you can use Corel WordPerfect or similar software from the "Word Processing & Legal Docs" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to WPD, try Corel WordPerfect or another comparable tool in the "Word Processing & Legal Docs" category.
The WPD Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our WPD converter.