What is a .WPD file?
WPD is a WordPerfect document, the word processor that ruled offices before Word.
- Did you know
- WordPerfect dominated office word processing in the 1980s and early 1990s.
- WordPerfect was created by Brigham Young University’s Alan Ashton and Bruce Bastian, whose firm Satellite Software International later renamed itself WordPerfect Corporation.
- WPD is a stream-based binary format, which is why WordPerfect’s famous Reveal Codes view can show every formatting code inline.
- What Analyser reads
- Open documents, ebooks and publishing files beyond Office: comic books (CBZ/CBT with ComicInfo + first-page preview; CBR/CB7 identified), Microsoft XPS, FictionBook FB3, iBooks, Scrivener, Visio VSDX, R Markdown/Quarto, RTFD, WARC/MAFF web archives, TeX DVI, legacy Hangul HWP, and WordPerfect/QuarkXPress/PageMaker identification.
- Depth of analysis
- .WPD is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .WPD file
- Drag a .WPD file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.