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File conversion?
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Posted by: Cettie
I recently tried to open some items I had saved in My Documents. I got a message that told me that I had to put in a converter found on the MS Works Suite 2002 disk 1, to make the document readable. I did that and got a pop-up box saying to choose the encoding that would make the document readable. Huh? So I tried every option they had, and I still get a series of little rectangular boxes as my text, not even remotely readable. Some of the word documents I had saved were created with a word processing program downloaded from the internet. When they built my new computer they transferred all the data from the old computer for me and the old computer didn't have a word processing program in it, so that's why I had to download one.
I need to be able to read and print these documents and would appreciate any light you could shed on the problem.
Posted by: justinious
Do you remember the program used to create the documents in the first place? If not, what kind of file are they?
Posted by: Bleyn
If you have Notepad or Wordpad available, try opening the file in one of those. Notepad especially. It might give you the text without trying to do a potentially unneeded encoding conversion.
It might not work, but its always worth a shot. Personally, these days I tend to think the fancier word processors are really more hinderance than help. They try to do too much for you and end up getting in the way of letting me do what I want.
Notepad and Wordpad lack a lot of those features, and at times that can be a good thing.
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