Pages with Word Perfect

Does anyone know if Pages will open word perfect documents or if word perfect can open Pages documents?

tmwhitmore wrote:
OpenOffice will open WordPerfect files just fine. Then you can save them in Open Office format or another format you do have on your Mac (e.g., .doc or pages or...).
is OpenOffice able to save as Pages format ?
I was unable to find such an item in its Save As menu
Not too surprising as it is dropping accented chars from ASCII text files.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 19 février 2009 16:31:06)

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Message was edited by: eagerlearner

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