Re: Word insists on WordPad file format

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Rob B. wrote:
A related, but much smaller problem is that at least one document
that I created in OpenOffice (I was curious about other word
processors), then later modified in WordPerfect, now has the ".doc"
extension, and is noted as type "Wordpad," but opens as hash in
WordPad... and Word says it's a WordPerfect
6.x file and can't open it at all. Can I run some kind of converter
on that one (and a handful of others that may have the same
characteristic)?

If the standard WP filter doesn't open it, try the old one linked from the
downloads page of my web site.

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My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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Rob B.


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Word hasn't done anything to your files. They are still Word
documents - provided you haven't saved them again from WordPad. It
is merely the file association in the registry that is confused
thanks to the installation of software that uses the same filename
extension - Word Perfect!. You should be able to correct it by
re-registering Word

How to re-register Word when problems crop up opening files
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm


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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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Rob B. wrote:
After uninstalling a trial version of WordPerfect, I installed MS
Office 2003 (Word and Excel). Right after that uninstall, before the
Office install, I found that my (many) text files had been converted
to WordPad files. They remained that way even after Word 2003 was
installed. I tried opening one in Word and using "Save As" to save
it as a Word Document. No joy. It remained a WordPad file.
Then I created a test page in Word and saved it as a Word
Document. It ended up as a WordPad file. When I click on it to open
it, it launches WordPad.
This is very bad. The conversion to WordPad has probably
permanently wrecked some documents with tables in them. I need to
get the remains of my files back into Word's format, soon. Any
thoughts? I'm running WinXP on my nearly new PC, built from
top-quality components. The PC runs very well.

Thanks,
Rob B.


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