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Opening Corel Presentations (.shw) Files

Part of WordPerfect Office, and just as orphaned as the documents beside it.

·By the LegacyFileConverter team
A Corel Presentations slide deck being converted to a modern deck

TL;DR

Corel Presentations decks (.shw) shipped inside WordPerfect Office and rarely open anywhere else. LegacyFileConverter converts them to PPTX or PDF locally — no Corel suite required.

Corel Presentations was the slideshow app in WordPerfect Office, sitting alongside WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. Its .shw files are now just as hard to open as the documents and spreadsheets that lived in the same suite.

Why .shw is hard to open

  • PowerPoint does not import the .shw format.
  • Buying a current WordPerfect Office license to read one deck is overkill.
  • Free viewers for .shw effectively do not exist.

Convert to a modern deck

1

Add your .shw files

Drop in single decks or a whole folder.

2

Choose PPTX or PDF

PPTX to edit and present; PDF for a fixed copy.

3

Convert offline

Conversion happens entirely on your PC.

Summary

You do not need WordPerfect Office to open a .shw deck. Convert it to PPTX or PDF and present it anywhere.

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