Notepad Nonsense!

[Guest]

I am a student and while using Vista for internet classwork (Blackboard) I
tried to open an assignment and ended up with a notepad document full of
symbols and randomly placed text. I tried changing the font, but to no avail.
The document apprears to be saved as a .doc, as I read on other postings, but
I can get no further. If I email the link to myself, I can see the preview in
yahoomail, and it makes sense, but when I download and open it is the
symbols. How can I save theses files and view them as intended?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Melanie;
Do you have Microsoft Word or some other similar word processor?
You need to open the file with the same or compatible program as created.

 

[Charlie Tame]

I am a student and while using Vista for internet classwork (Blackboard) I
tried to open an assignment and ended up with a notepad document full of
symbols and randomly placed text. I tried changing the font, but to no avail.
The document apprears to be saved as a .doc, as I read on other postings, but
I can get no further. If I email the link to myself, I can see the preview in
yahoomail, and it makes sense, but when I download and open it is the
symbols. How can I save theses files and view them as intended?

You can try downloading this and see if that helps any...

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/CD010225841033.aspx

 

[Guest]

Notepad and wordpad cannot properly handle .doc files. Try Microsoft Works
word processor or Office Microsoft Word that sometimes comes with a Vista
package or some other word processor that can edit .doc files.

 

[Guest]

Thanks everyone,
I saved teh file to my hard drive, then opened in Word. I don't know that
this is the most efficient way, but it did work. Thanks!

 

[Malke]

Thanks everyone,
I saved teh file to my hard drive, then opened in Word. I don't know that
this is the most efficient way, but it did work. Thanks!

Melanie, it sounds as though Blackboard is not Vista-compatible. Someone
posted about Blackboard issues earlier this week (perhaps it was you?).
You've found a usable workaround, but you might also want to contact the
school webmaster about problems using Blackboard with Vista. It will be
up to him/her to check with Blackboard and do any updates but at least
you can let him/her know about the issues.


Malke

 

[theclyde]

I am a student and while using Vista for internet classwork (Blackboard) I
tried to open an assignment and ended up with a notepad document full of
symbols and randomly placed text. I tried changing the font, but to no avail.
The document apprears to be saved as a .doc, as I read on other postings, but
I can get no further. If I email the link to myself, I can see the preview in
yahoomail, and it makes sense, but when I download and open it is the
symbols. How can I save theses files and view them as intended?

..doc is a microsoft word format, not plain text. Try opening it with
Wordpad/Write.