- Cannot open a text file in My Documents
- Posted by ECLiPSE 2002 on January 13th, 2005
I just discovered that I am enable to open several .doc files that I
have saved in My Documents. When I attempt to open them I get a popup
message entitled Wordpad with the following statement..."Can not load
Word for Windows 6.0 files."
I have always used Wordpad to save my text documents and cannot
understand how or why Word files got involved - I have never used
Word.
When I purchased a new Compaq PC with WinXP home, I transferred all of
My Documents from my old PC running Win 98se to the new PC. Is it
possible that the transfer somehow caused this glitch?
Does anyone have a suggestion for salvaging these files - most are
genealogy files and of considerable value to me.
Thanks for any suggestions or guidance.
Frank
- Posted by Ingeborg on January 13th, 2005
ECLiPSE 2002 <fdm2000@comcast.net> wrote in
news:3nvcu0dnupnajv9oqj47ph5beden0ugchm@4ax.com:
You can try to use 'Word Viewer' from Microsoft.
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF>
- Posted by Jamco on January 13th, 2005
or you could download open office. Its basically a free version of MS
office, so it should open your files for you. Definately a step up from
word pad
"Ingeborg" <a@b.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns95DDA0EDB61EDabinvalid@130.133.1.4...
- Posted by Wesley Vogel on January 14th, 2005
Right click any *.doc file.
Click Properties.
Under Open with, Click the change button.
Select WordPad.
Check Always use the selected ...
Click Apply.
Click OK.
I have MS Word. It was the default program for *.doc files. I just changed
it so WordPad would open *.doc files.
I better change it back. ;-)
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
In news:3nvcu0dnupnajv9oqj47ph5beden0ugchm@4ax.com,
ECLiPSE 2002 <fdm2000@comcast.net> hunted and pecked:
- Posted by Kadaitcha Man on January 14th, 2005
Wesley Vogel, <123WVogel955@comcast.net>, the fly-bitten, bug-eyed
newsagent, and seller of dead eels, excoriated:
The appearance of a control character in "Check Always" is indicative of
copy/paste. Copying and pasting without attributing the source, along with
the intent of having others believe you were the author of the text, is
called plagiarism.
Plagiarism is a criminal offence in most western democracies. Plagiarsim is
also known as intellectual theft, and for a very good reason.
HTH and HAND.
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- Posted by ECLiPSE 2002 on January 14th, 2005
Many thanks to the responders - the installation of MS Word Viewer did
the trick.
For some reason the following suggestion failed to work for me :Right
click any *.doc file.
Click Properties.
Under Open with, Click the change button.
Select WordPad.
Check Always use the selected ...
Click Apply.
Click OK.
Still am perplexed that the files were saved in the Word format since
I have never used Work nor have I ever had the program on any of my
PCs - past or present?
Frank
Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:09:27 GMT, "Jamco" <Homer@jamco.com> wrote:
