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From: Sjouke Burry on 14 Dec 2009 16:08
JD wrote:
> THEO(a)TO. wrote:
>> For years I've been taking .jpgs and pasting them in WordPad
>> documents and thought it was a great thing to be able to do it.
>> I've done hundreds of documents like that and never had any
>> problems. But now all of a sudden they don't show the pictures or
>> even the text anymore, but instead it's just a bunch of symbols
>> like y's with dots over them and rectangular blocks, etc... Can
>> anyone explain what happened and how to make it work the way it
>> did before?
>
> I'm not a big fan of wordpad cant say I use it much but it sound's like
> the strange letters and symbols you are seeing are the CODE of the JPG
> file, the only thing I can think of is that if it is saving it as .txt
> file; then a .txt file can only contain text, make sure you are saving
> as .rtf or .doc.
>
> Theres a Free Word processor package out there called OpenOfice.org,
> which can read and write to Microsoft files as well as many others
> including PDF if you write a lot of text you might be better off with
> this instead.
>
> JD
Woops, reply to the wrong post a few minutes ago.
Again:
I have xp sp3, copy in PAINT and then paste in Wordpad worked for me.
Dragging the file into Wordpad did not work for me, it only left the
name of the file in a drag frame.
From: - Bobb - on 14 Dec 2009 16:30

<THEO(a)TO.> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:11:15 +0000, JD <No.Reply(a)Sorry.com>
<CUT>
>
> My idea is that every PC should have NotePad and WordPad, so use
> them so I can open whatever on any PC. Of course that doesn't
> work either because at lot of my programs were made on older
> computers so for some reason when I try to open old WordPad files
> in newer PCs I get a message like: 'Can not open Word (whatever)
> files, or something like that. Well I'm not trying to open Word
> files at all, and in fact deliberately try to use WordPad in an
> effort to avoid that exact kind of problem.

If you WANT to use WordPad only , then edit your file type options
IF a PC, open windows Explorer
then Tools- Folder Options
scroll down for the filetype extension ( is it RTF ) you want ONLY WordPad
to open and remove that filetype from Word
So double-click RTF - for default program to be WordPad - Choose WordPad. Or
delete all but WordPad if you like. Having more than one listed just lets
you "rightclick " on the file and choose OPEN with several programs.

And if you don't have Word and do need to read Word documents (.doc), go to
Microsoft.com and download " Word Viewer."


From: Jon Danniken on 15 Dec 2009 15:27
Mike Easter wrote:
>
> Crossposting recklessly to multiple groups is counterproductive. It
> will cause less people to read your message because many knowledgeable
> and helpful readers filter out all such crosspostings.
>
> In the future when you are going to start a message question, first
> research similar issues to your question using googlegroups. Often
> that will give you the answer you seek, and it will also show you the
> one best group to ask your question. Then post the question to one
> appropriate group only.

OP only posted to three groups, that is well within the customary limit for
crossposting, and is *far*, *far* better than multiposting.

The only issue at hand seems to be the relevance of the groups he posted to,
but I think we can overlook that failing today.

Jon


From: Jon Danniken on 15 Dec 2009 15:29
THEO(a)TO. wrote:
>
> What do you use to copy pictures? I've been using a demo version
> of LView for several years. It has always worked though, and I've
> made quite a few docs this way with no trouble reading them or
> transfering them and reading them on other computers (except
> newer ones often said they could not read that version of Word
> documents...) until now all of a sudden when they quit working on
> my own computer.

I used to use lview back many moons ago. Irfanview is a much better
solution, is free, and very capable.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Jon


From: THEO on 15 Dec 2009 19:05
It's not really a Notepad icon after all, but it is a text icon
just white with black lines and the spiral looking thing across
the top.

I right clicked on a WordPad icon and selected Run as... The box
by "Protect my computer and data from unauthorized program
activity" was checked, so I unchecked it and hit OK hoping that
would change things back. But I can't find out whether it would
or not because something keep checking the box again...every time
I uncheck it and close the window, when I open it again it's
checked again. So now what???
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