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Wordpad, Windows98 and Vista
I've got a large number of wordpad documents with formatted text. On
my old computer they were stored simply as documents (*.doc). I put these onto a cd as data files. Due to some changes Microsoft has made between Windows98 and Vista, when they are opened on the new computer, as '.doc' files, all formating is lost, (plus, alot of meaningless characters, gibberish, are added onto each page when opened). The problem seems to be that the Vista-based computer saves formatted texts as rich text documents. Is there some way I can have them 'open as a rich text document' directly from the cd... or use some other trick so that the formatting will be preserved? |
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How did you open those files? Straight from the CD or did you copy them to
the hard drive first? Same question for how you put the files on the CDs. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Godolphin&fellow" wrote in message oups.com... I've got a large number of wordpad documents with formatted text. On my old computer they were stored simply as documents (*.doc). I put these onto a cd as data files. Due to some changes Microsoft has made between Windows98 and Vista, when they are opened on the new computer, as '.doc' files, all formating is lost, (plus, alot of meaningless characters, gibberish, are added onto each page when opened). The problem seems to be that the Vista-based computer saves formatted texts as rich text documents. Is there some way I can have them 'open as a rich text document' directly from the cd... or use some other trick so that the formatting will be preserved? |
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On Mar 29, 10:31 am, "JoAnn Paules"
wrote: How did you open those files? Straight from the CD or did you copy them to the hard drive first? Same question for how you put the files on the CDs. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Thanks for replying. I copied them from the cd into a folder, then opened them from the folder. On the old computer I just copied the contents of My Documents straight onto a cd. ~~~~~ How to ask a questionhttp://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Godolphin&fellow" wrote in message oups.com... I've got a large number of wordpad documents with formatted text. On my old computer they were stored simply as documents (*.doc). I put these onto a cd asdata files. Due tosome changes Microsoft has made between Windows98 and Vista, when they are opened on the new computer, as '.doc' files, all formating is lost, (plus, alot of meaningless characters, gibberish, are added onto each page when opened). The problem seems to be that the Vista-based computer saves formatted texts as rich text documents. Is there some way I can have them 'open as a rich text document' directly from the cd... or use some other trick so that the formatting will be preserved? |
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Although it will probably yield the same results, have you tried opening
those files on another computer? -- JoAnn Paules Microsoft MVP - Publisher How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "Godolphin&fellow" wrote in message oups.com... On Mar 29, 10:31 am, "JoAnn Paules" wrote: How did you open those files? Straight from the CD or did you copy them to the hard drive first? Same question for how you put the files on the CDs. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Thanks for replying. I copied them from the cd into a folder, then opened them from the folder. On the old computer I just copied the contents of My Documents straight onto a cd. ~~~~~ How to ask a questionhttp://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Godolphin&fellow" wrote in message oups.com... I've got a large number of wordpad documents with formatted text. On my old computer they were stored simply as documents (*.doc). I put these onto a cd asdata files. Due tosome changes Microsoft has made between Windows98 and Vista, when they are opened on the new computer, as '.doc' files, all formating is lost, (plus, alot of meaningless characters, gibberish, are added onto each page when opened). The problem seems to be that the Vista-based computer saves formatted texts as rich text documents. Is there some way I can have them 'open as a rich text document' directly from the cd... or use some other trick so that the formatting will be preserved? |
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On Mar 30, 5:23 am, "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
Although it will probably yield the same results, have you tried opening those files on another computer? The only other computer I had access to was the old Windows98 one; there they opened from the cd just fine, with the formatting intact and without the 'gibberish' added in. I wonder if there's some downloadable program that could be used to open the documents, so they can be transferred into 'rich text documents', On Mar 29, 10:31 am, "JoAnn Paules" wrote: How did you open those files? Straight from the CD or did you copy them to the hard drive first? Same question for how you put the files on the CDs. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Thanks for replying. I copied them from the cd into a folder, then opened them from the folder. On the old computer I just copied the contents of My Documents straight onto a cd. ~~~~~ How to ask a questionhttp://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Godolphin&fellow" wrote in message groups.com... I've got a large number of wordpad documents with formatted text. On my old computer they were stored simply as documents (*.doc). I put these onto a cd asdata files. Due tosome changes Microsoft has made between Windows98 and Vista, when they are opened on the new computer, as '.doc' files, all formating is lost, (plus, alot of meaningless characters, gibberish, are added onto each page when opened). The problem seems to be that the Vista-based computer saves formatted texts as rich text documents. Is there some way I can have them 'open as a rich text document' directly from the cd... or use some other trick so that the formatting will be preserved |
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It could be almost anything going on. I'd copy those files to a flash drive
and paste them into the new system again. Maybe something screwed up that CD. -- JoAnn Paules Microsoft MVP - Publisher How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "Godolphin&fellow" wrote in message oups.com... On Mar 30, 5:23 am, "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Although it will probably yield the same results, have you tried opening those files on another computer? The only other computer I had access to was the old Windows98 one; there they opened from the cd just fine, with the formatting intact and without the 'gibberish' added in. I wonder if there's some downloadable program that could be used to open the documents, so they can be transferred into 'rich text documents', On Mar 29, 10:31 am, "JoAnn Paules" wrote: How did you open those files? Straight from the CD or did you copy them to the hard drive first? Same question for how you put the files on the CDs. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Thanks for replying. I copied them from the cd into a folder, then opened them from the folder. On the old computer I just copied the contents of My Documents straight onto a cd. ~~~~~ How to ask a questionhttp://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Godolphin&fellow" wrote in message groups.com... I've got a large number of wordpad documents with formatted text. On my old computer they were stored simply as documents (*.doc). I put these onto a cd asdata files. Due tosome changes Microsoft has made between Windows98 and Vista, when they are opened on the new computer, as '.doc' files, all formating is lost, (plus, alot of meaningless characters, gibberish, are added onto each page when opened). The problem seems to be that the Vista-based computer saves formatted texts as rich text documents. Is there some way I can have them 'open as a rich text document' directly from the cd... or use some other trick so that the formatting will be preserved |
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