66 Experts: Merge Expert: In Paradox 11 from WP Office Suite 12
VERSIONS: Paradox 11 installed from WP Office 12
Subject: Running WP Office 12 and Paradox 11
BY: BERTIL ISBERG
Date: 18 March 2005
In Paradox, there is a Merge Expert with which you can merge data into a WP document. The choices of word processors in the Merge Expert does not include WP12. Unless you have older versions of the WP Office suite installed, you cannot merge from Paradox.
As I don't have this setup, I have analyzed the problem by selecting WordPerfect 10 which I don't have installed. I then get an error: "The expert could not run the application "WordPerfect 10". Find and run the application yourself, then click the Finish button."
POSSIBLE WORKAROUND - not verified:
With WP12 and Paradox 11 installed, you could try this:
Select a different version of WordPerfect, e g WP 11. Paradox will be looking for the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WP11DOC\shell\open\command. To fix this, you have to export the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WP12DOC, and change all references WP12DOC to WP11DOC and run the .reg file. Now you should have both WP12DOC and WP11DOC both containing references to WP12.
Paradix is also looking for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wpd
It takes the (Default) value from this key. If missing on your installation, try to add WP11DOC using a .reg file with the following content
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wpd]
@="WP11Doc"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wpd\WP11Doc]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wpd\WP11Doc\ShellNew]
"FileName"="wordpfct.wpd"
A third Registry value Paradox is looking at is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\WP11Doc
which contains the same information as HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WP11DOC
This key is probably added when you run the .reg file above adding HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WP11DOC.