Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WR1 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert WR1 to another file type
To convert WR1 spreadsheets to another format, you need Lotus Symphony or other Spreadsheet software.
Convert a file to WR1
To convert other file formats to the "Legacy Spreadsheet File" file type, you need software like Lotus Symphony or a similar tool.
About WR1 files
The .WR1 file extension is primarily associated with Lotus Symphony, an integrated DOS software package developed by Lotus Development Corporation in the 1980s. These files store legacy spreadsheet data, including cell entries, mathematical formulas, and primitive chart parameters. Alternatively, the .WR1 extension was occasionally utilized for document files generated by early versions of WordPerfect. Both variations are entirely obsolete and rely on proprietary binary encoding that is no longer supported by modern operating systems or hardware. The primary disadvantage of the .WR1 format is extreme software dependency. Modern spreadsheet tools like Microsoft Excel dropped native support for these specific legacy extensions years ago, meaning users cannot simply click to open them on web browsers or mobile devices. This presents a massive data lock-in risk. To preserve historical data, you must convert .WR1 files to standardized formats. For Lotus spreadsheets, the best conversion targets are CSV to extract raw, unformatted data, or XLSX if legacy structural mapping is possible. Be realistic: complex 1980s macros and proprietary chart formatting will be permanently lost during conversion. For WordPerfect variants, converting to DOCX, RTF, or PDF is necessary to rescue text flow, though vintage font mapping usually breaks. This file format is exceptionally difficult to open or convert because of its closed architecture. Often, only the original DOS software running via an emulator can properly read or export the complete data set. Standard online converters fail to process it due to the absence of modern parsing libraries. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing raw data or extracting text fragments may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your WR1 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert WR1 file to XLS, XLSX, XLSM, XLSB, ODS, CSV, TSV, TAB, DIF, SLK, WK1 or WK3, you can use Lotus Symphony or similar software from the "Legacy Spreadsheet Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert WQ1, XLSM, NOTES, QPW, WK3, WB2, WKS, XLSB, 123, XLS, WB1 or XLSX files to WR1, try Lotus Symphony or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Spreadsheet Data Storage" category.
The WR1 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 WR1 converter.