windows "shell"

[Guest]

I have been trying to open an acknowledgement letter and have discovered that
the document uses Windows Shell. Does anyone know how I can open this
document?

 

[P. Di Stolfo]

Hello,

what is the file's extension?

Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have been trying to open an acknowledgement letter and have discovered that
the document uses Windows Shell. Does anyone know how I can open this
document?

Exactly what did you discover and how did you discover it?

How are you trying to open it?

What is the name of the file you are trying to open--particularly the
last three or four characters after the dot (called the extension)?

For example, is it .doc? If so it's a Microsoft Word document, and you
need Microsoft Word, or some compatible program, to open it. If the
extension is something else, you need some other appropriate program
to open it.

The extension describes the kind of file it is--the program that was
used to create it--and tells Windows what program to open it with. You
didn't provide much information to go on, but in general, the usual
reason you can't open a file received by E-mail is that you don't have
an appropriate program installed.

If my guess that you have a .doc file is correct, you would seem not
to have Word installed. To open the file, you either need to buy Word,
acquire some compatible program, or download and install the free
Microsoft Word viewer at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en

or http://tinyurl.com/5ye9c

Note that that last choice will let you open and read Word /doc files,
but not let you create or edit them.

 

[Mark F.]

I have been trying to open an acknowledgement letter and have discovered
that
the document uses Windows Shell. Does anyone know how I can open this
document?

"Windows Shell" refers to many things such as shell functions, user
interface, shell macros, shell folders, etc.

What is the file extension for the document?

Did you try opening the file with wordpad.exe? Even binary files can be
opened with Wordpad.exe. You may only see cryptic characters but you should
be able to open the file.

Mark

 

[Vanguard]

in message

I have been trying to open an acknowledgement letter and have
discovered that
the document uses Windows Shell. Does anyone know how I can open this
document?

If you have been trying to open an acknowledgement letter then you also
know the name of that file (attached to e-mail or saved to disk). If it
has a filename extension, that indicates what program you need to read
it. Until you divulge the extension, no one can give you specific help.

Document files, like any data files, do not use any program, including a
"windows shell" (which presumably meant the command shell or DOS shell).
It's the other way around: programs use data files. A document is not a
program so it doesn't need a shell. The document must be read by a
program that understands the format used to encode the content of that
document.