Word Pad to Word

[VanguardLH]

Not to give you a hard time, but in that case, let me make another
correction ;-)

There were two different Microsoft products called 3.11:

1. Windows 3.11 (a *very* minor upgrade to Windows 3.1, that just
contained some additional drivers and some fixes that had been
available separately).

2. Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (very different from Windows 3.11).


Yep, same for me. Don't ask me how I remember the above--I don't
really know. Perhaps because it was very common in those days to make
the error of thinking Windows 3.11 was Windows for Workgroups.

That's why I typically have to go reference an article that lists the
history or timeline for Windows. I still remember going to Egghead
(yep, they had stores back then) and seeing Windows 286. I don't ever
recall seeing Windows 1.0 or 2.0 before that on the shelves. I paid
$2500 for an IBM PC/AT back in 1982 with a 5MB hard disk and 640KB of
memory, and feeling wowed when I later added a NEC V70 math chip. Never
had a TRS-80. Never had a Mac, either: I liked the hardware but not the
OS. Recall using CPM, 8-inch Pelican drives, and even the old Altair
with paddle switches. I remember hitting the Heath store and buying the
parts to build computers and later it got so much easier, ha ha, to buy
a Heathkit. I had oscilloscopes, signal tracers, logic analyzers, and
whatnot. Those were my toys. Before that I took CSci classes and using
punch tape for "portable programs" and punch cards before that and where
main memory was 3 wires passing through magnetic beads. God I'm old.
At least I can say I was born 10 years after ENIAC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Microsoft_Windows
(I think 2.11 and 2.20 were the 286 and 386 versions.)

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

God I'm old.
At least I can say I was born 10 years after ENIAC.

Eniac was in 1947, so you were born in 1957?

That makes me, having been born in 1937, twenty years *older* than
you. ;-)

 

[VanguardLH]

Eniac was in 1947, so you were born in 1957? That makes me, having
been born in 1937, twenty years *older* than you. ;-)

I thought it was 1946. Me born 10 years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eniac
"The completed machine was unveiled on February 14, 1946"

So are you one of those that got hooked on Spam during WWII because of
rationing? My parents love the, um, stuff. I can't stand it. They can
starve me, put me in complete isolation, electrify me, and torture me
but I won't talk. If they make me eat spam, I'm spilling the beans.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I thought it was 1946. Me born 10 years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eniac
"The completed machine was unveiled on February 14, 1946"

OK, correction accepted. Then I'm only 19 years older than you. ;-)

So are you one of those that got hooked on Spam during WWII because of
rationing? My parents love the, um, stuff. I can't stand it. They can
starve me, put me in complete isolation, electrify me, and torture me
but I won't talk. If they make me eat spam, I'm spilling the beans.

Nope. As best I can remember, I've never even tasted spam.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I think you were born at the ideal time, Ken! You're a tad older than me,
so you've had more time to experience some of the better days of society
(i.e., personal responsibility, or rather the lack of it, comes to mind
here), and music, all with the single notable exception of race prejudice.
(But Lady Gaga and all this newage junk would never have made it on stage!).

I understand very well what you mean. But my view is a little
different. If you compare almost any two times, one is better in some
respects, the other better in other respects.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

No doubt. I think the gains we have made technologically are great, but
what's happened to us as a nation, and socially, at the individual level
(e.g.: the ever increasing lack of one's own personal responsbility, and
instead blaming (and suing) others, and the loss of the two parent homes,
etc, is a REAL loss. I'm not convinced it was worth the tradeoff.

If by "us as a nation" you mean the USA, I'm with you on that
completely.

 

[basilique]

Thank you all. Of course, the obvious was copy and paste! As I
said...technical idiot.
Now I can't get onmthe Internet. All attempts say: page error or erreur sur
la page. I am connected and
all systems are go. What do I do now?
And thanks...
____________________________________________________________

 

[Tim Meddick]

I repeat ;

First you must SAVE the received email attachment (that usually opens in
WordPad) to your hard-drive (My Documents folder).

To do this, right-click with the mouse on the attachment and choose "Save
As..." then save it in My Documents.

Next, OPEN the file by first starting Microsoft Word, then choosing "File"

"Open" from the top menus and browsing down the files in your My

Documents folder until you reach the saved file.

Having found your saved file in the "Open File..." box in MS Word, select
it and click on the "Open" button.


If the attachment CAN be opened in MS Word, you will be able to "see" it in
the "Open File" box from within the MS Word application - if it's of a type
that Word cannot deal with, you won't be able to "see" the file in the
dialogue box.

However, as someone else here has suggested, if it usually opens with
WordPad then it MUST open with MS Word, as MS Word can open anything that
WordPad can handle...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[BillW50]

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Not to give you a hard time, but in that case, let me make another
correction ;-)

There were two different Microsoft products called 3.11:

1. Windows 3.11 (a *very* minor upgrade to Windows 3.1, that just
contained some additional drivers and some fixes that had been
available separately).

2. Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (very different from Windows 3.11).


Yep, same for me. Don't ask me how I remember the above--I don't
really know. Perhaps because it was very common in those days to make
the error of thinking Windows 3.11 was Windows for Workgroups.

I heard the same for the past 15 years. Although I had both and they
were the same to me. The only difference I noticed was WfWG supported
networking while Windows 3.1 didn't. And I wasn't networking back then
at home anyway. ;-)