Re: Word 6.0 files
- From: garfield-n-odie <garfieldnodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:08:35 -0700
YES WHAT? If you re-read your second post, you will see where you clearly (albeit ignorantly) claimed that your computer had "Word for Windows 5.1". You said NOTHING about WordPad 5.1.
gerri wrote:
YES - Windows XP Media Center Edition came with "Microsoft WordPad Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp2.....). Also, our HP laptop came with the exact same thing, and I am quoting from the HELP/About menu: Microsoft WordPad Version 5.1...
AND, this program WILL NOT open .doc files that were saved in Windows 98 or Windows ME.
The "MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE BASE" states the following (and I copied and pasted the following directly from http://support.microsoft.com...
"SYMPTOMS
When you try to open a document file, such as a .doc or .wri file, in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), you may receive the following error message:
Cannot load Word for Windows 6.0 files"
"CAUSE
Rich Text Format (RTF) converters are disabled in Windows XP SP2."
"To enable RTF converters in Windows XP SP2, you must modify the registry."
Because I am unwilling to "modify the registry" as suggested by Microsoft, I read many posts where many other users were having the same problem. The other word programs I suggested will open & convert these .doc files.
"garfield-n-odie" wrote:
There is no such thing as Word 5.1 for Windows. Word version numbers went from 2.x to 6.0, skipping the numbers 3 thru 5. So what do you actually have?
gerri wrote:
Guess I wasn't clear - Word for Windows 5.1 came with my 2005 Media Center and will not open Word 6.0. After an hour of searching, I discovered that 6.0 is an older file (I didn't realize that because of it's number). Different posts also gave different answers as to how to convert. I discovered that "Works" and "Office" will open these files. My husband also could not open old 6.0 files on his laptop, which didn't come with Works or Office, but discovered WordPerfect will also open Word 6.0 files. So......... I solved both problems by right-clicking on that file type and clicking "Open with...." the program on each computer that works.
This was important to us because we have years of stored .doc files mixed in with newer files, and now we just open any file without wondering which program to use.
Maybe this can help some others who are still looking to download a program that converts .doc files. They probably already have a program that does this.
"Richard Neville" wrote:
If you are trying to open a file by selecting it in Windows Explorer and double-clicking, this may not work. As an alternative, open Word; then use File-Open to navigate to the desired file, and open it that way. If successful, save it in the latest version of Word on your computer.
"gerri" <gerri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47948C87-AD32-4A8D-9BDD-D020B5B17E10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Why can't I open Word 6.0 files saved with my old computer, with my new HP
Media Center PC?
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