
- #Word documents open in wordpad how to#
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- #Word documents open in wordpad windows#
Graham Mayor (Microsoft Word MVP 2002-2019) For more Word tips and downloads visit my web site Īlmost certainly, your problem was caused by your working with a document directly from/saving to removable media (flash drive) I want to try your suggestion ''You might try using the "Recover Text from Any File" setting'' but where do I look for this? Thanks for trying to help. wrote in message news:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***.Īs indicated in my thread,I never asked to use Word! Since the problem first occured,i've been using Wordpad as a''Rich Text Documents'' without any problem.However,i'd love to convert the dozens of Wordpad Documents I already have(which have the problem) to If you want to send me one (to the link on my web site) that will not open correctly I will attempt to ascertain what the problem is. If you are opening RTF files and they are not opening correctly, it seems they may be corrupt. Word 6 DOC format is RTF so Wordpad shouldn't need any additional filter to handle that format. It cannot open Word 2007 DOCX format documents Graphics, header/footers etc will not be resolved.). In addition it can open Word 97-2003 document format (although it may not resolve all the elements of a Word document correctly.
#Word documents open in wordpad windows#
It can also open these formats and the older Windows Write WRI format So when you say you want to convert 'WordPad Documents' to 'Rich Text Documents' then that is what they are already. Wordpad can save documents in RTF format (with the extension DOC or RTF) or three flavours of plain text. Microsoft MVP (Word) since 1999 Fairhope, Alabama USA Screen shots captured with TechSmith's Snagit Have dozens of Wordpad documents that are unreadable? Thanks for the help.
#Word documents open in wordpad how to#
Then anytime I open a Wordpad document it shows Microsoft Word version 6 and the document contains '' a full page of garbage characters'' like yyyyyyyyyyyy's and â–¡â–¡â–¡â–¡â–¡â–¡ ! Can someone pls provide details,on how to fix this once and for all,as I

#Word documents open in wordpad zip file#
> Can not load Word for Windows 6.0 files."To fix the problem: I downloaded ''EnableConverters.zip.'' I Extracted EnableLegac圜onverters.reg from the zip file and double-clicked on it,where it was entered in the Registry,and I thought that was it! However,since

#Word documents open in wordpad pro#
>A while back I had a bunch of Wordpad Documents on our Windows 98 computer (BTW these documents open perfectly on that computer),but when I tried to move them to my XP Pro computer, I got the following" The background color of a paragraph will be changed to look like the text has been highlighted instead.News:4054b5b2-f740-4ede-9318-557dabdd4ce1. Multilevel lists will be transformed to single-level bulleted lists but the indentation stays the same. That way you can make changes to a copy of the file while keeping the content in the original file intact.Īnnotations, including comments, revisions, and bookmarksĭrawingML, MathML, and custom XML content in Office Open XML format text documentsĬhart content, mathematical content, and graphic content in OpenDocument format text documents If you want to change such a file, but don’t want to lose the original content, tap or click Save as and save the file with a different name.

If you open a file with these features and then save the file in WordPad, you’ll lose the content in these features.

Some features-like headers, footers, and annotations-aren’t supported in WordPad.
