When I receive an attachment to an e-mail, double click and select read it now, what downloads on wordpad (Outlook Express, MIE 5, Win 95) is, I guess, code - rows of squares - with occasional words. Is it because my word processor is old dos software and I can't read attachments sent in Word? Rarely an attachment will come in fine, but usually I can't read them. Any ideas?
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Yes, that's probably why. If someone is sending you a Word 97 file and you have an old DOS word processor, you'll probably get gibberish.<br>
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Ask the sender to save the document as a text file (txt is the extension), which they will have the capability of doing and your word processor should be able to open.
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Ask the sender to save the document as a text file (txt is the extension), which they will have the capability of doing and your word processor should be able to open.
PaulBarter
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Have you tried saving the attachment and then loading it into WordPad
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