2 file types use the .wn file extension.

What is a WN file?

Web file used by WN, a Web server designed to protect visibility and access to server files; stores information about files served on the server; may describe .HTML files, images, and other binary files; used for specifying the content of Web files in a directory.

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WriteNow Document

A WN file may also be a text document created by NeXT WriteNow, a word processor available for the original Apple Macintosh PC and NeXT workstations. WN files often contain instructional manuals, worksheets, resumes, memos, or letters. These documents typically consist of several sections of formatted text, and they may include images.

WriteNow was a word processor developed by John Anderson and Bill Tschumy and released by NeXT in 1985. Initially, WriteNow was available for the Apple Macintosh, as a competitor to Apple's MacWrite word processor. When NeXT began selling their own workstations, they bundled WriteNow with those workstations.

In WriteNow, users could create formatted text documents, complete with headers and footers, bolded, italicized, and underlined text, and images. On Macintosh computers, WriteNow saved documents without a file extension. However, on NeXT workstations, WriteNow saved documents with the .wn file extension.

WriteNow is discontinued, but you can open WN files with LibreOffice Writer, a free word processor included with the LibreOffice suite. To do so, select File → Open... from Writer's menu bar. Then, navigate to and open your WN file.

You can use LibreOffice Writer to convert a WN file to the following formats (and several others):

To do so:

Programs that open WN files

Updated: August 21, 2023