Problem with WordPad all of a sudden.
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From: THEO on 14 Dec 2009 10:51 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?
From: Mike Easter on 14 Dec 2009 12:06 posted to a.c.h.p-h only THEO(a)TO. wrote: Newsgroups: alt.computer, alt.computer.workshop, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Subject: Problem with WordPad all of a sudden. 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. -- Mike Easter
From: JD on 14 Dec 2009 14:11 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
From: - Bobb - on 14 Dec 2009 16:07 "JD" <No.Reply(a)Sorry.com> wrote in message news:4b268d5c$0$2528$da0feed9(a)news.zen.co.uk... > 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? New antivirus software ? Change security level on IE ( browser) ? I ran into that with Outlook - showed me a small icon rather than image. Changed security from high to moderate and then showed picture as it used to. ( "preview" is considered a security issue) BTW, I use paint to do what you do start- prgs - accessories-paint copy picture from app paste save as done
From: THEO on 14 Dec 2009 16:10
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:11:15 +0000, JD <No.Reply(a)Sorry.com> 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, That sounds right. >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. These are files that have been .doc files and working fine for years, but now all of a sudden they're acting like .txt files I guess. I don't know if it could have anything to do with this, but I tried opening a .jpg with LView and got the message: .....jpg is not a valid Win32 application. Well I never said it was, but it was after that the problems seemed to begin with WordPad. >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. 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. |