They are saved as .doc extension in 95 and "yes" I am using Vista Wordpad.
What extension should I use? Thanks for the help as I am a rookie at this.
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"Cameron Snyder" wrote:
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> In what format are they saved under 95? What file extension do they have?
> Try saving them in another format--rich text format (save as) and then re-do
> your copy. And you are opening them in Vista WordPad, right? Not Notepad.
>
> "Hokie60" <Hokie60@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> >I have an old computer running Windows95 which has a lot of documents
> >written
> > with wordpad. I want to move them to a new computer running Windows Vista.
> > I
> > tried copying them to a disc and loading them into Documents but now they
> > are
> > unreadable garbage. Any suggestions????
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