After serious thinking Dick Baker wrote :
I have my new Win7 machine running alongside the old XP so I can move
into the new box with great care and deliberation.

Just found this bizarre difference in opening MS Word documents:

WordPad on XP will open *.doc files, but not the newer
*.docx files (which makes sense, since docx came along
much later.

WordPad on Win7 will open *.docx files, but NOT *.doc files.
Why in the world should that be?

The release of write.exe that ships with Win7 is v6.X! The release that
shipped with XP was v5.x! The latter is not capable of opening MSO2007
and later because it doesn't understand the compound file structure
introduced with MSO12. The current release of write is written to
support the newer structure and any support for the older (outdated)
Word files has been deprecated.

That said, you could copy the older version of write.exe to your Win7
machine (not to a Windows folder) so you have both available, but this
involves also including the dependancy files since Wordpad is not a
stand-alone application!g Here's one (quite old) way...


http://www.computing.net/answers/win...d-1/12113.html

Optionally, you can use Open/Libre Writer or if not wanting an office
replacement there's several (free) Wordpad replacements available, of
which some are 'portable'!

--
Garry

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