My Documents format for wordpad out of wack

[Guest]

i just recently bought a new comp with xp on it and I hooked up the old hard
drive as a secondary drive, which has win98 as the os, and sent all of My
Documents to My documents on the new drive. They are all there with no
problem, but when I open them with wordpad, which is what I used to create
them, the page layout is all screwed up and I have to go in "Page Setup" and
change the margins and tabs for each and every document that I open up.
After I do that, if I choose to print the document which is usually more than
one page, I have to go down through the document and move things up and down
to get it to line up on the pages right when it prints, then when I do get
everything layed out right again and go to print it, there is always one
blank page at the end. Not that it is a big deal to put the blank page back
in the feeder, but as you can imagine it becomes quite a nuissance after a
while!!

So is there a way to fix all of these documents together so they are aligned
right, and therefore maybe print right without having to adjust everything in
each and every document. It's also the same story with MS Word documents.

I'm wondering if I should have transfered these files in a different manner?

 

[Phil]

Doesn't have anything to do with how you transferred them over. It has to do
with either different printers or different printer drivers(win9X vs. Winxp
drivers). Happens sometimes with new printer drivers.
As far as I know there's no way to fix them all at once.
To get rid of the last page, scroll down to it, click on the page, hit the
backspace key multiple times until the page dissapears. It should get rid of
the blank space and thus the last blank page.

 

[Malke]

i just recently bought a new comp with xp on it and I hooked up the
old hard drive as a secondary drive, which has win98 as the os, and
sent all of My
Documents to My documents on the new drive. They are all there with
no problem, but when I open them with wordpad, which is what I used to
create them, the page layout is all screwed up and I have to go in
"Page Setup" and change the margins and tabs for each and every
document that I open up. After I do that, if I choose to print the
document which is usually more than one page, I have to go down
through the document and move things up and down to get it to line up
on the pages right when it prints, then when I do get everything layed
out right again and go to print it, there is always one
blank page at the end. Not that it is a big deal to put the blank
page back in the feeder, but as you can imagine it becomes quite a
nuissance after a while!!

So is there a way to fix all of these documents together so they are
aligned right, and therefore maybe print right without having to
adjust everything in
each and every document. It's also the same story with MS Word
documents.

I'm wondering if I should have transfered these files in a different
manner?

It sounds like you created the documents in a word processing program
and that Wordpad isn't successfully converting the proprietary format.
With what program did you originally the documents? If you have MS Word
on the new machine, make sure you've installed all the converters from
older file formats.

Malke

 

[Guest]

It sounds like you created the documents in a word processing program
and that Wordpad isn't successfully converting the proprietary format.
With what program did you originally the documents? If you have MS Word
on the new machine, make sure you've installed all the converters from
older file formats.

Malke
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MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
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Open them with MS Works, Word Processor and then file them with rich Text Word.