Re: Word documents that won't read in wordpad
- From: "Shari Weir" <shariweir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:58:03 -0500
Hi Lauren, Did your computer by chance come with Microsoft Works? I've had
reasonable success with Word documents in that program.
Shari
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lauren childress" <childress54@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: Word documents that won't read in wordpad
> The files are all doc files in both of the books, my computer didn't come
> with word.
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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
> other countries."
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> >From: "Dale Leavens" <dleavens@xxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: Word documents that won't read in wordpad
> >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
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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
> > > other countries."
> > >
> > >
> > > hi listers:
> > >
> > > 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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