Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!ECUVM1!SODALECK From: SODALECK@ECUVM1.BITNET (Mike Dalecki) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.wp50-l Subject: Re: WordPerfect 5.1 and Quattro Pro Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 90 12:15:36 GMT Sender: WordPerfect Corporation Products Discussion List Reply-To: WordPerfect Corporation Products Discussion List Lines: 29 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 31 Jan 90 16:29:38 EST from The maintenance upgrade of WP5.1 is supposed to include support for importing Quattro Pro files. I read this in some kind of promotional literature (or maybe a readme file). Anyway, I would call WPCORP to confirm. WP5.1 is also supposed to import LOTUS files. You should be able to save the QUATTRO PRO file as a .WKS or .WK1 file (by specifying the extension when you save it--Quattro then automatically converts to the format implied by the extension), and then import the .WKS file into WordPerfect 5.1. By the way--anyone who needs/wants LOTUS V3.0 functionality but is stuck on a 640K XT-CLONE machine like I am should look long and hard at QUATTRO PRO. There haven't been many programs over the years that I have been truly impressed with, or bowled over by when I first saw them (besides WP, I think there are 2 others), but QUATTRO PRO is one of them. Borland has a nice educational discount, too. I suppose the best tribute to QP is that I no longer care that I don't have a '286 or '386 machine with a bunch of megs. Well, I guess that's not true-- I'd love one, but QP has set back the day of reckoning. Oh yeah---- it works great on '286 and '386 machines too. ************************************************************************* * Mike Dalecki (BITNET - SODALECK@ECUVM1) * Sociology/Anthropology ---------------------------------- * East Carolina University | The World Doesn't Want To Hear | * 405-A Brewster (919) 757-6883 | The Labor Pains-- | * Greenville, NC 27858 | It Just Wants To See The Baby. | *************************************************************************