Notepad Nonsense!

I am a student and while using Vista for internet classwork (Blackboard) I
tried to open an assignment and ended up with a notepad document full of
symbols and randomly placed text. I tried changing the font, but to no avail.
The document apprears to be saved as a .doc, as I read on other postings, but
I can get no further. If I email the link to myself, I can see the preview in
yahoomail, and it makes sense, but when I download and open it is the
symbols. How can I save theses files and view them as intended?

Melanie;
Do you have Microsoft Word or some other similar word processor?
You need to open the file with the same or compatible program as created.

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"Melanie" <> wrote in message
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>I am a student and while using Vista for internet classwork (Blackboard) I
> tried to open an assignment and ended up with a notepad document full of
> symbols and randomly placed text. I tried changing the font, but to no
> avail.
> The document apprears to be saved as a .doc, as I read on other postings,
> but
> I can get no further. If I email the link to myself, I can see the preview
> in
> yahoomail, and it makes sense, but when I download and open it is the
> symbols. How can I save theses files and view them as intended?

Melanie wrote:
> I am a student and while using Vista for internet classwork (Blackboard) I
> tried to open an assignment and ended up with a notepad document full of
> symbols and randomly placed text. I tried changing the font, but to no avail.
> The document apprears to be saved as a .doc, as I read on other postings, but
> I can get no further. If I email the link to myself, I can see the preview in
> yahoomail, and it makes sense, but when I download and open it is the
> symbols. How can I save theses files and view them as intended?


You can try downloading this and see if that helps any...

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/do...225841033.aspx

Notepad and wordpad cannot properly handle .doc files. Try Microsoft Works
word processor or Office Microsoft Word that sometimes comes with a Vista
package or some other word processor that can edit .doc files.

"Melanie" wrote:

> I am a student and while using Vista for internet classwork (Blackboard) I
> tried to open an assignment and ended up with a notepad document full of
> symbols and randomly placed text. I tried changing the font, but to no avail.
> The document apprears to be saved as a .doc, as I read on other postings, but
> I can get no further. If I email the link to myself, I can see the preview in
> yahoomail, and it makes sense, but when I download and open it is the
> symbols. How can I save theses files and view them as intended?

Thanks everyone,
I saved teh file to my hard drive, then opened in Word. I don't know that
this is the most efficient way, but it did work. Thanks!

"oscar" wrote:

> Notepad and wordpad cannot properly handle .doc files. Try Microsoft Works
> word processor or Office Microsoft Word that sometimes comes with a Vista
> package or some other word processor that can edit .doc files.
>
> "Melanie" wrote:
>
> > I am a student and while using Vista for internet classwork (Blackboard) I
> > tried to open an assignment and ended up with a notepad document full of
> > symbols and randomly placed text. I tried changing the font, but to no avail.
> > The document apprears to be saved as a .doc, as I read on other postings, but
> > I can get no further. If I email the link to myself, I can see the preview in
> > yahoomail, and it makes sense, but when I download and open it is the
> > symbols. How can I save theses files and view them as intended?

Melanie wrote:
> Thanks everyone,
> I saved teh file to my hard drive, then opened in Word. I don't know that
> this is the most efficient way, but it did work. Thanks!

>>> I am a student and while using Vista for internet classwork (Blackboard) I
>>> tried to open an assignment and ended up with a notepad document full of
>>> symbols and randomly placed text. I tried changing the font, but to no avail.
>>> The document apprears to be saved as a .doc, as I read on other postings, but
>>> I can get no further. If I email the link to myself, I can see the preview in
>>> yahoomail, and it makes sense, but when I download and open it is the
>>> symbols. How can I save theses files and view them as intended?

Melanie, it sounds as though Blackboard is not Vista-compatible. Someone
posted about Blackboard issues earlier this week (perhaps it was you?).
You've found a usable workaround, but you might also want to contact the
school webmaster about problems using Blackboard with Vista. It will be
up to him/her to check with Blackboard and do any updates but at least
you can let him/her know about the issues.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

On Sep 21, 8:16 pm, Melanie <Mela...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I am a student and while using Vista for internet classwork (Blackboard) I
> tried to open an assignment and ended up with a notepad document full of
> symbols and randomly placed text. I tried changing the font, but to no avail.
> The document apprears to be saved as a .doc, as I read on other postings, but
> I can get no further. If I email the link to myself, I can see the preview in
> yahoomail, and it makes sense, but when I download and open it is the
> symbols. How can I save theses files and view them as intended?

..doc is a microsoft word format, not plain text. Try opening it with
Wordpad/Write.