[Godolphin&fellow]

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?

[JoAnn Paules]

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]

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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


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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?

[Godolphin&fellow]

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

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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?

[JoAnn Paules[_2_]]

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
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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?

[Godolphin&fellow]

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

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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

[JoAnn Paules[_2_]]

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



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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