Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
> >> but WordPad is Windows XP's own document, isn´t it?
>
> Correct! However, the file type will be treated as "unknown" if it's not
> associated correctly. If you're able to open that file type by
> double-clicking in Explorer, then you can ignore the step.
>
> BTW, the 1st link which I posted adds a PersistentHandler / plain text
> filter for the said file type (.rtf?), automatically.
>


Very well, I will try, if only because I am curious to see. Thank you
very much for your patience. The fact is that I should never have
changed to Windows XP. I changed, too, because I was curious to see.

And what did I see? that after all that time, the text processors and
the paint program are exactly the same! not a dot changed! and it has
taken me all this time to find out.