Re: Word documents that won't read in wordpad
- From: "Dale Leavens" <dleavens@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:49:15 -0400
Good morning Lauren,
WordPad is primarily a pure text editor but Microsoft Word is a document
editor. This means the files it uses contain a lot of other information about
the documents beyond pure text. This information will confuse a programme like
WordPad.
A true Word file is best opened with MS-Word, not WordPad although there are
other programmes which are supposed to open MS-Word files, programmes like
Duxbury Braille Translation programme and even WordPerfect, OpenBook and K1000.
Truth is though, even these don't always work as advertised.
It may also be that the file format is something else. Do you know the file
extension? things like .DOC for Word, .PDF for Adobe Acrobat, WPD for Word
Perfect and there are dozens of others for those special E-book formats I am
not familiar with.
About the only thing consistent with the computer environment is that few
things are compatible, even after all this time.
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada
DLeavens@xxxxxxx
Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lauren childress" <childress54@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 10:15 AM
Subject: Word documents that won't read in wordpad
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> Lauren Childress
> "always remember, to play after every storm." Mattie J.T. stepanek
> When women get depressed, they either eat or go shopping, while men invade
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> hi listers:
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> i'm using windows 98 se, and JAWS 5.0, I recently recieved my textbooks for
> college, 2 of which are on cd rom. The first book reads well, but the second
> book, when I go to open the files it says, wordpad dialog this program has
> performed an illegal opporation and will be shut down, if the problem
> persists, contact the program vender. what's going on here, it only happens
> with certain word documents. BtW, the other book is also in word format.
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