Wordpad can't open it's own files and neither can Word Reader

[Frank N. O.]

I made some .doc files a year or two ago and recently when I tried opening them (also with XP Home) it said "Can not open files for Word for Windows 6.0 files" there's just one thing, I don't have, nor did I ever have Word, I just use Notepad and WordPad. I also don't think it was a problem that happend around the upgrade from SP1 to SP2. I wrote down the suspension alignment from fading print-outs from the Orion's first owner that was in the manual folder and now I can't access them and there's no other way to get the info. I tried MS' own Word Reader but it said it was a corrupt file or something else was wrong. Any ideas?

Frank

[Chaul]

Opened just fine in OpenOffice 2.0....

[Frank N. O.]

Thank you very much, for the record I switched over to use .rtf format now and that seems to work well, although I don't know the difference really apart from the lack of the page-width limit.

I hope the same thing won't happend with the .txt and .rtf files I have but now thanks to you I have my specs :)

Thank you :wave:
Frank

[Chaul]

It's basically a glorified .txt format but it's supposed to be well portable between platforms. As in, the document should look the same if opened on another computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTF

[Frank N. O.]

Ah, thank you, and sorry for forgetting Wikipedia, they've had answers (that sounded correct) to many things I've needed answers to when I've found new things on the internet.

Frank