Dear Carol, I hope Paul Shiphert's suggestion worked (do tell us if it did
nor didn't, would be useful to know). If it didn't you might try getting
one of the programs which can read Word documents. Microsoft used to offer
a program called "Word Viewer 2003" and of course there's "Open Office".
See the following links -
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011496951033.aspx
and
http://www.openoffice.org/
Best, = Cheeta
Cheeta Gauba
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At 04:05 PM 9/22/2005 +0000, Paul A. Shippert wrote:
>Greetings Carol & list--
>Responses are interspersed....
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>
> > I got a new computer and went from Win98SE to XP. I just realized that
> > ALL my old documents from Win98SE that were created in WordPad, are not
> > readable now. even though I have WordPad on the new system. When I try to
> > open them, I get the message:
> > "Cannot load Word for Windows 6.0 files". I don't understand that, because
> > I never had Word for Windows.
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>
>When WordPad was first included as part of Windows 95, its 'native
>format' was that of Word for Windows 6.0, event though it did not
>have all the features of that word processor.
>
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> > For a brief period of time, I had a program that would read Word
> documents. I > tried it, because people were sending me documents
> produced in Word that I > couldn't read. Now I can't remember exactly
> why I uninstalled it, except that it > was affecting my existing WordPad
> documents in some way. I suppose it > corrupted my Wordpad
> documents, although I was able to read them in > WordPad on my
> old system as recently as the day I switched to the new >
> system. It's only my new system that is having problems with them, even
> though > it has WordPad.. I KNOW the documents I'm trying to open now
> were created > in WordPad, because they're documents I created myself
> within my old >Win98SE system. AND, they're documents I need badly.
> (There are probably
> > thousands of them covering several years.)
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>
>I don't know whether this will be helpful or not, but have you tried
>right-clicking on the icon for WordPad on your new computer, clicking on
>properties, then the compatibility tab, then setting it to run in
>compatibility mode with Windows 98?
>I don't know whether that will work on something as "stitched into the
>operating system" as WordPad is, but it's worth a try.
>
>HTH.
>
>Paul A. Shippert
>Library Media Specialist
>Margaret Brent Middle School
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>and I'm hovering like a fly
>waiting for the windshield on the
>freeway." Genesis
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