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Word Files Fail to Open Correctly
Recently I had to have the hard disk on my desktop computer reformatted and
Windows XP reinstalled to overcome a drastic problem. My word processing data files were saved before the reformat and have been reinstalled on the computer. The original files were saved with the file extension .wps but the replacement files have no extension and when I try to download a file into Word 2000 the result is gibberish. Incidentally, I have also copied the files to my laptop and these load correctly into Word 2000 on that computer. Please can someone suggest how the filres may be correctly downloaded. My computer system: Dimension 4500, 2.53GHz processor, 512Mb DIMM, Windows XP, 20Gb hard disk, 80Gb hard disk, Roxio CD R/RW, Blueyonder Broadband & LAN, Dell Photo All-in-One printer. Dimension 4100, 1GHz processor, 256Mb SDRAM, Windows ME, 20Gb hard disk, Adaptec CD R/DW, HP Deskjet 840C, Scanjet 3300c, Blueyonder Broadband & LAN Inspiron 8600, 1.4 Ghz processor, 512Mb SDRAM, Windows XP Home, 40Gb hard disk, Philips CDRW/DVD disk drive, Blueyonder Broadband & LAN Netgear RP614 v2 router. |
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Word Files Fail to Open Correctly
Hi T.,
You may want to check in Windows Explorer Tools=Folder Options to turn on the display of file extensions (i.e. the files may still have the extensions but may not be shown). The .WPS files could be MS Works documents and you may not have the Works converter installed with Word. In Word's Tools=Options=General dialog you turn on [x] Confirm conversions at open and then use File=Open to try to open one of your old files does the MS Works word processor choice appear? If not, you may want to download the converter from http://microsoft.com/products/works/...x#Works6.0Conv ================== "thyde9337" wrote in message ... Recently I had to have the hard disk on my desktop computer reformatted and Windows XP reinstalled to overcome a drastic problem. My word processing data files were saved before the reformat and have been reinstalled on the computer. The original files were saved with the file extension .wps but the replacement files have no extension and when I try to download a file into Word 2000 the result is gibberish. Incidentally, I have also copied the files to my laptop and these load correctly into Word 2000 on that computer. Please can someone suggest how the filres may be correctly downloaded. My computer system: Dimension 4500, 2.53GHz processor, 512Mb DIMM, Windows XP, 20Gb hard disk, 80Gb hard disk, Roxio CD R/RW, Blueyonder Broadband & LAN, Dell Photo All-in-One printer. Dimension 4100, 1GHz processor, 256Mb SDRAM, Windows ME, 20Gb hard disk, Adaptec CD R/DW, HP Deskjet 840C, Scanjet 3300c, Blueyonder Broadband & LAN Inspiron 8600, 1.4 Ghz processor, 512Mb SDRAM, Windows XP Home, 40Gb hard disk, Philips CDRW/DVD disk drive, Blueyonder Broadband & LAN Netgear RP614 v2 router. -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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