You might try the free Open Office program that does seem compatible with most formats.
www.openoffice.org Ian -------Original Message------- From: d_papabear Date: 27/10/2008 00:17:14 To: [email protected] Subject: [A-1-Computer_Tech] word problems Hi, all--I'm a professional musician and have been using Win.98 for a few years programming my one-man show...using midi files for playing my background. I recently bought a new laptop (Acer Aspire 5050-3242) loaded with Win. XP Media Editon. My problem is that all my files created on Wordpad Win. 98 won't open in the new XP machine. I have thousands of files, song words, etc. created on Wordpad and I really need some kind of driver or something to make the word 6.0 open in XP. I insatlled Microsoft Office, but when it opened the wordpad files from the old "98" program, it put it on a page with a bunch of stuff at the top of the page instead of just the plain sheet with writing on it. The Office program takes up about 1/3 page with different icons for operations I will never use for my purpose. I would love to know how to just make this XP open the old wordpad files. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I'm obviosly not a tech, but I have been playing with these machines "by ear" for approx. 10 years and have changed hard drives, sound cards, floppy drives, fans, power supplies myself...so hopefully I can understand what you tell me. Thanks!-- ROBERT-- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
