moved my documents now messed up

[Guest]

Please excuse my ignorance if you notice that this is a very similar question
to the one that I posted the other day, but it seems to have disappeared, so
naturally I can't find it to follow up with possible solutions. Even so I
modified it a little anyway.

I bought a new computer and I transfered all of my documents from a hard
drive w/win 98 to new comp w/win xp. Now when I open any one particular
document, I have to redo the tabs and margins etc. to get the documents to
look how they were originally and then when I print them I have to move
certain parts of the document up or down to get the multiple page documents
to print with the page breaks in the right spot. Everything was perfect on
all of them on the old computer. And I am opening them with the same program
that I used to create them. Which some are Wordpad and some are MS Word.

These multiple document are a simple layout that I made in the beginning to
use for making bids and contracts for the business, and then I just go in and
plug in the numbers or words that I want, so all of these documents having
the same layout, it's frustrating to have to fix each one individually as I
open them, when all of them are basically duplicates. On top of that, when I
do get them fixed and I goto print them there is always a blank page at the
end, which there never was before?

Someone please share some ideas with me. I'm relatively computer literate,
but this one has got me stumped!!

Thanks for all and any help.

 

[Wislu Plethora]

Please excuse my ignorance if you notice that this is a very similar question
to the one that I posted the other day, but it seems to have disappeared, so
naturally I can't find it to follow up with possible solutions. Even so I
modified it a little anyway.

I bought a new computer and I transfered all of my documents from a hard
drive w/win 98 to new comp w/win xp. Now when I open any one particular
document, I have to redo the tabs and margins etc. to get the documents to
look how they were originally and then when I print them I have to move
certain parts of the document up or down to get the multiple page documents
to print with the page breaks in the right spot. Everything was perfect on
all of them on the old computer. And I am opening them with the same program
that I used to create them. Which some are Wordpad and some are MS Word.

These multiple document are a simple layout that I made in the beginning to
use for making bids and contracts for the business, and then I just go in and
plug in the numbers or words that I want, so all of these documents having
the same layout, it's frustrating to have to fix each one individually as I
open them, when all of them are basically duplicates. On top of that, when I
do get them fixed and I goto print them there is always a blank page at the
end, which there never was before?

Someone please share some ideas with me. I'm relatively computer literate,
but this one has got me stumped!!

Thanks for all and any help.

Yet another reason to never use Wordpad for anything important. It appears
that the version that comes with XP is reading formatting information
differently than the 98 version did. There was a suggestion in response to
your previous post (it didn't disappear) that perhaps print drivers were the
culprit, and that might explain your printing problem (you need XP drivers
for your printer; 98 drivers won't work) but it doesn't explain why the
documents display improperly.

There's not much you can do about it at this point. Documents created in
Word under 98 shouldn't have problems in XP; formatting won't be affected.
My suggestion is that you should open the documents in Word, reformat them,
and save them in Word, using rtf format if you want others to be able to
open them in Word pad.

 

[Guest]

Different printer driver perhaps?

Also note that Word and Wordpad are really not page
layout tools. They basically flow text which page-
boundaries being kind of a late decision. Something like
Pagemaker which is much more page-oriented might work
better for you. This is assuming that you need a page
break in an exact spot which I'm not sure about from your
description. Another way to read your description is
that you put some manual page breaks in your old
documents and this is causing you grief, because you get
an automatic page break, a line of text, then one of your
old manual page breaks. The best way to avoid this with
Word and Wordpad is to avoid manual page breaks. Try to
use keep-together type features instead.

Also if they're all duplicates you might want to look
into fields, mail merge etc. You can create one document
for many people.

 

[Guest]

I checked all the drivers and they are right. Having to fix the docs doesn't
bother me if I didn't have to do each one individually. I was hoping that
since every document is layed out exactly the same that there would be a way
to fix all of them at ounce, or if there was some kind of updating, that i'm
not aware of, that can be done for all files of such, therefore any file that
has such-n-such format will appear the way they were originally saved.

I'm also curiuos if the documents were originally saved in regular text
format when they were originally layed out, as opposed to saving them in RTF
format, then moving them from one version of win to a newer version caused it
to lose there original exact layout.