Wordpad

[cinna]

Hello All,
My computer recently caught a nasty virus in which I had to basically erase
everything off of my computer and start anew. I saved a document onto a CD
disk and when I try to open it in wordpad I see a bunch of sqares and
symbols. I even tried to save the document in the RTF and it still opens
with the squares and symbols. Can someone please help?

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

Hello All,
My computer recently caught a nasty virus in which I had to basically
erase
everything off of my computer and start anew. I saved a document onto a
CD
disk and when I try to open it in wordpad I see a bunch of sqares and
symbols. I even tried to save the document in the RTF and it still opens
with the squares and symbols. Can someone please help?

What was the original extension of this file?

 

[cinna]

..doc

What was the original extension of this file?

 

[cinna]

..doc

What was the original extension of this file?

 

[Al Falfa]

Hello All,
My computer recently caught a nasty virus in which I had to basically
erase everything off of my computer and start anew. I saved a document
onto a CD disk and when I try to open it in wordpad I see a bunch of
sqares and symbols. I even tried to save the document in the RTF and it
still opens with the squares and symbols. Can someone please help?

Did you save this document before or after you started anew?

If it was a plain-text file, how does it look if you open it in
Notepad?

In Wordpad > Format > Font..., is there any readable text in the
'Sample' box? What is the name of the font? If it is a font that is
not supplied with XP, you will need to re-instal it.

If you save as type 'Text Document', 'Text Document - MSDOS Format',
'Unicode Text Document', to your hard drive, are any of those readable
in Notepad?

 

[cinna]

I saved this file before my computer caught the virus. I tried to open it in
Notepad and I still had the weird squares and symbols. The font in the sample
box is Courier New Regular 10

 

[Tim Meddick]

Cinna,
Your best bet to save this file, if it is important to you, is to
take it to another machine that has got Word (for Windows) on it, and open
it in that. Word will automatically try and convert it for you into
compatible encoding. If it succeeds, save it then as type: RTF (Rich Text
Format) and take it safely back home.

 

[Jose]

Cinna,
        Your best bet to save this file, if it is important to you, is to
take it to another machine that has got Word (for Windows) on it, and open
it in that.  Word will automatically try and convert it for you into
compatible encoding.  If it succeeds, save it then as type: RTF (Rich Text
Format) and take it safely back home.

Perhaps you are opening the file with some program that was not used
originally to create it.

For example, if I choose to open a saved file that is an Adobe file
with a .PDF extension using Wordpad or Notepad, the result on my
screen is gibberish,

If you have the file open (somehow) and then save it with other
options or formats, you will likely ruin it - forever.

The extension (after the dot) of a file name tells Windows what
program to use to open it, Windows will make its best guess if it
doesn't find a match, Sometimes you have to teach Windows what you
mean.

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Then open it in Word.

: .doc
:
: "Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:
:
: >
: > : > > Hello All,
: > > My computer recently caught a nasty virus in which I had to basically
: > > erase
: > > everything off of my computer and start anew. I saved a document onto
a
: > > CD
: > > disk and when I try to open it in wordpad I see a bunch of sqares and
: > > symbols. I even tried to save the document in the RTF and it still
opens
: > > with the squares and symbols. Can someone please help?
: >
: > What was the original extension of this file?
: >
: >
: >

 

[HeyBub]

Perhaps you are opening the file with some program that was not used
originally to create it.

For example, if I choose to open a saved file that is an Adobe file
with a .PDF extension using Wordpad or Notepad, the result on my
screen is gibberish,

If you have the file open (somehow) and then save it with other
options or formats, you will likely ruin it - forever.

The extension (after the dot) of a file name tells Windows what
program to use to open it, Windows will make its best guess if it
doesn't find a match, Sometimes you have to teach Windows what you
mean.

And don't forget that files on a CD are automatically marked as "read only."
They may not open in a program that's expecting read-write access.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

.doc

Then it's a Microsoft Word file, not a Wordpad file. Wordpad can not
successfully open such a file, as you've found out. You need to open
it in Word or in some compatible program.

 

[Richard in AZ]

Then it's a Microsoft Word file, not a Wordpad file. Wordpad can not
successfully open such a file, as you've found out. You need to open
it in Word or in some compatible program.

Older WordPad also makes DOC files

 

[cinna]

Thank all of you guys, you have all been very helpful!

 

[cinna]

I'm going to have to break down and by the MS word program. When I
reinstalled XP word wasn't on my computer. I'm on ebay and wanted to know
what you guys thought of Open Office 2007? Any thoughts?

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Friday, April 17, 2009 10:57:02 AM, and on a whim,
cinna pounded out on the keyboard:

I'm going to have to break down and by the MS word program. When I
reinstalled XP word wasn't on my computer. I'm on ebay and wanted to know
what you guys thought of Open Office 2007? Any thoughts?

Hi Cinna,

If your documents are heavily formatted, Open Office should work fine
for you. It won't cost you anything to try it!



Terry R.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Friday, April 17, 2009 2:28:54 PM, and on a whim,
Terry R. pounded out on the keyboard:

The date and time was Friday, April 17, 2009 10:57:02 AM, and on a whim,
cinna pounded out on the keyboard:



Hi Cinna,

If your documents are heavily formatted, Open Office should work fine
for you. It won't cost you anything to try it!



Terry R.

That should state, "are NOT" heavily formatted!


Terry R.