Dick Baker seesig4address wrote in news:XnsA35E7383B1581kx97@
216.196.97.131:

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?

My thanks to those who responded and apologies to all for (1) a horrible
typo, i.e., subject should have been WordPad in Win7 vs. XP, not just
Word (although you figured that out from the context) and (2) not being
clear by saying WordPad 6.0 in Win7 "will not" open older Word *.doc
files; it will open them, but displays binary code. Quite frankly, I
didn't scroll down far enough to discover that it was displaying the
original text after all the gibberish.




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