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| 152250 | 2003-06-13 05:24:00 | Every time I try put documents etc. into 'notepad' and sometimes when I use 'word' the text is in unreadable symbols. I am using Windows Me. |
Jaunty (4009) | ||
| 152251 | 2003-06-13 06:33:00 | Probably it's just 'horses for courses'. Notepad will only read ascii .txt files, other formats will appear as gobbledy-gook. Im not a Word expert, but the basic format is a .doc document, a bit confusing, as in the "olden days" .txt and .doc were often the same format ie. plain vanilla ascii files. Microsoft try to suppress file extensions from being seen by default, I'd turn them on, and also set to see hidden files etc. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 152252 | 2003-06-13 06:36:00 | You should be able to dump Word documents into notepad where they will appear as unformatted text. Transfer back to Word will be unformatted as well. But why would you want to put Word docs into Notepad? It is a very simple program wor text only work. I use it as a scratch pad for quick notes and pasted scraps of text because it opens fast. Perhaps if you explain what you are doing in more detail we might get a better idea of what is going on. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 152253 | 2003-06-16 11:47:00 | Thank you for you reply Terry but even when I get 'read me ' files they come up as gobblty gook. | Jaunty (4009) | ||
| 152254 | 2003-06-16 11:49:00 | Thank you Billy T for your reply but as I said above anything I get like manuals or instructions in note pad they are unreadable. | Jaunty (4009) | ||
| 152255 | 2003-06-16 12:14:00 | What happens when you try to type somethign in to document? It might just be that the font needs changing. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 152256 | 2003-06-17 07:08:00 | How or where do you get manuals that require notepad Jaunty? Notepad is dedicated to files with a *.txt suffix, but as I said in an earlier post, you can dump most formats into it and it will accept them, but stripped of formatting. Manuals usually come in *.doc or *.pdf formats and if you are trying to open pdf files with notepad there is no hope of success. It would help if you could identify in more detail what you are trying to do, the file names of the documents that get corrupted and where they come from (in generic terms anyway). Notepad really doesn't sound like the right vehicle for your needs. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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