Re: Wordpad, Windows98 and Vista

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.

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JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

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



"Godolphin&fellow" <g4th1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1175392353.807424.135280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mar 30, 5:23 am, "JoAnn Paules" <jl_pau...@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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" <jl_pau...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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" <g...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

>>news:1175136176.148323.128060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>> > 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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