Re: Word Problem-Gibberish

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From: Graham Mayor (gmayor_at_DELETECAPSmvps.org)
Date: 07/13/04


Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:20:21 +0300

As far as Windows XP is concerned, your CDR is just another drive. Select
the files you want to copy with Windows Explorer, copy them to your hard
drive, uncheck their read only property and away you go. Word will open text
files produced by Notepad and you can save them as Word documents.

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Graham Mayor -  Word MVP
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Jpw wrote:
>   Is it possible to take a Windows 98 "notepad" file from
> one computer, put it on a rewritable cd-rom, and then
> install it and open it as a Word document on a new
> computer with Windows XP?  When I tried to do this, there
> is no text, just symbols.
>   Also, is it possible to download all the files from the
> cd rom at once onto the XP system?  I seem to only be able
> to do them one at a time.
>   Thanks for any help.


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