Notepad to Word Document

[Guest]

Hello,
I am runningWindows XP with Office 2000, I took advantage of the trial offer
to check out Office 2003 and did some work on new Documents. After 60 days MS
locked me out of 2003 unless I upgraded at a cost of $350 , long story short
all of the documents created in office 2003 converted to Notepad and I can't
get them back to word format. Any help woul be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jackson

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

What do you want someone to help you with? Convert a file to Word - which
you can't open? Give you money so you can afford the software? (Ain't gonna
happen.)

Office was a *trial* version. That means you get to sample it but you don't
get to keep it for free forever. It's a tough lesson to learn but it's
clearly marked trial.

 

[Guest]

If you have Office 2000 it should include Word 2000 which should be able to
open text files (i.e., NotePad). You may have to change the 'Files of Type'
to either Text Files or All Files in Word's Open File dialog box in order to
see them.

Even if you don't have Word 2000 your Windows XP Accessories include
WordPad, which should also be able to open the files.

As an aside, by your own admission you attempted to 'take advantage' of the
MS offer to "Try before you _buy_", but what you don't seem to realize is
that you attempted to take advantage of MS, period. How does the company's
effort to protect itself from what amounts to thievery make it the bad guy?

Regards |:>)

 

[Guest]

JoAnn,
Appreciate your reply but not the tone. Yes, I was looking for a suggestion
no I don't need anyone to give me money for the software,And does *trial*
REALLY mean I don't get to keep it, gee, what a surprise.
Judging from the tone of your answer and the title I would guess you are
someway "close" to MSFT, Now I understand where the level of support I got
from MSFT comes from.
Jackson
--
MS does it again

What do you want someone to help you with? Convert a file to Word - which
you can't open? Give you money so you can afford the software? (Ain't gonna
happen.)

Office was a *trial* version. That means you get to sample it but you don't
get to keep it for free forever. It's a tough lesson to learn but it's
clearly marked trial.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Hello,
I am runningWindows XP with Office 2000, I took advantage of the trial
offer
to check out Office 2003 and did some work on new Documents. After 60 days
MS
locked me out of 2003 unless I upgraded at a cost of $350 , long story
short
all of the documents created in office 2003 converted to Notepad and I
can't
get them back to word format. Any help woul be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jackson

 

[Guest]

Cyber,
Thanks for the information it was very helpful. I understand your comment
about the need for Bill to make more money and as a Capitalist I agree. My
point was however that nowhere, was it mentioned that my files would be
changed, I would lose information I had , and for all intents and purposes I
would be "locked" out f my own files. Let me also add that when I tried to
contact MS with the problem I was passed from support tech to support tech.
Jackson

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Interesting that you can read the "tone" of my voice. (Read that with a bit
of snippiness.)

I asked you some basic questions. You said help - but help with what aspect
of the problem? Some people post here asking for product codes, illegal
downloads, etc.

And we so A LOT of people who have the trial version and then want to sing
the blues when it expires. I'm sorry but if you're big enough to be using a
computer then you can read. And if you can read, you can see that it's a
*timed* trial.

And no, I'm not "close" to Microsoft. I have nothing to do with their tech
support whatsoever.
--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

JoAnn,
Appreciate your reply but not the tone. Yes, I was looking for a
suggestion
no I don't need anyone to give me money for the software,And does *trial*
REALLY mean I don't get to keep it, gee, what a surprise.
Judging from the tone of your answer and the title I would guess you are
someway "close" to MSFT, Now I understand where the level of support I got
from MSFT comes from.
Jackson
--
MS does it again

What do you want someone to help you with? Convert a file to Word - which
you can't open? Give you money so you can afford the software? (Ain't
gonna
happen.)

Office was a *trial* version. That means you get to sample it but you
don't
get to keep it for free forever. It's a tough lesson to learn but it's
clearly marked trial.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Hello,
I am runningWindows XP with Office 2000, I took advantage of the trial
offer
to check out Office 2003 and did some work on new Documents. After 60
days
MS
locked me out of 2003 unless I upgraded at a cost of $350 , long story
short
all of the documents created in office 2003 converted to Notepad and I
can't
get them back to word format. Any help woul be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jackson

 

[Guest]

JoAnn,
Here it is,
When MSFT Locked the trial it screwed up my machine, Windows 2000 ceased to
exist as I knew it. All of my Office suite dsappeared. MSFT was no help in
trying to get me back to pre - trial state. Got that so far?? I have relaoded
my original MSFT CDs but I cannot get Office to start. If you can offer a
suggestion , fine if not ........ I did not think you worked for MS tech
Support I was just making the the observation that your attitude was
remarkably like theirs. (Snippy)
Jackson
--
MS does it again

Interesting that you can read the "tone" of my voice. (Read that with a bit
of snippiness.)

I asked you some basic questions. You said help - but help with what aspect
of the problem? Some people post here asking for product codes, illegal
downloads, etc.

And we so A LOT of people who have the trial version and then want to sing
the blues when it expires. I'm sorry but if you're big enough to be using a
computer then you can read. And if you can read, you can see that it's a
*timed* trial.

And no, I'm not "close" to Microsoft. I have nothing to do with their tech
support whatsoever.
--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

JoAnn,
Appreciate your reply but not the tone. Yes, I was looking for a
suggestion
no I don't need anyone to give me money for the software,And does *trial*
REALLY mean I don't get to keep it, gee, what a surprise.
Judging from the tone of your answer and the title I would guess you are
someway "close" to MSFT, Now I understand where the level of support I got
from MSFT comes from.
Jackson
--
MS does it again

What do you want someone to help you with? Convert a file to Word - which
you can't open? Give you money so you can afford the software? (Ain't
gonna
happen.)

Office was a *trial* version. That means you get to sample it but you
don't
get to keep it for free forever. It's a tough lesson to learn but it's
clearly marked trial.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Hello,
I am runningWindows XP with Office 2000, I took advantage of the trial
offer
to check out Office 2003 and did some work on new Documents. After 60
days
MS
locked me out of 2003 unless I upgraded at a cost of $350 , long story
short
all of the documents created in office 2003 converted to Notepad and I
can't
get them back to word format. Any help woul be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jackson

 

[Graham Mayor]

Your files haven't been changed. They are still the files they always were.
It is only the file association in Windows that has changed. What you cannot
do any longer is open them with the expired trial version of Word. If you
installed the trial over Office 2000, then you will have to uninstall Office
(the trial) and reinstall Office 2000. Having Word 2000 present will reclaim
the DOC file association.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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[Anne Troy]

Hi, Jackson. If you don't have a legit version of Word (not saying you
don't, but I don't understand whether you do or not), you can download
OpenOffice from www.openoffice.org for free and it'll open Word files. You
could also get the Word viewer:
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/viewers_in_microsoft_office.htm
About re-associating your files:
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/files_dont_open_when_double-clicked_in_microsoft_office.htm
************
Anne Troy
VBA Project Manager
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Guest]

Graham,
Thank you for the suggestion, I did however unistall 2003 per MSFT's
instruction and reinstalled 2000 still no go
Jackson

 

[Guest]

Anne,
Thanks for the suggestion(I do have a legit version came on my dell,
actually corell came on the dell and I requested they change it out to to
MSFT which they did). Iwill give it a try.
Thanks again,
Jackson

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If Office 2000 is installed, you may just need to reregister Word to get it
to reclaim the .doc file association. To do this, with Word closed, select
Start | Run and type

winword /r

then press Enter. Note that there is a space before the forward slash. You
may get a message that Word has been reregistered, or it may appear that
nothing has happened. But you should now be able to open .doc files by
double-clicking; even without doing this, you should be able to open .doc
files from Word's File Open dialog, as Word recognizes its own files
regardless of icon.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thanks very much for the suggestion Suzanne, I'll give it a shot, and let you
know if it worked out.
Jackson