Opening . Docs in Vista

I transferred my documents from my old PC under windows ME to Vista . When I
try to open them I get a whole load of machine language symbols and numbers
as well as the text. How can I get them to open without all that stuff.
Thanks John.

Hi John,

I would suspect that whatever program was used to create them needs to be
installed on the Vista machine. The machine language appears because
whatever program is being used to open them cannot interpret the
instructions created by the program used under WinME.

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"johnvictor" <> wrote in message
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>I transferred my documents from my old PC under windows ME to Vista . When
>I
> try to open them I get a whole load of machine language symbols and
> numbers
> as well as the text. How can I get them to open without all that stuff.
> Thanks John.

John,
Did you install Microsoft Office / Word on your new Vista machine? Vista
does not natively support Word documents.

Sounds like it tried to open in Word Pad rather than Word.

Michael


"johnvictor" <> wrote in message
news:44EB93DC-3E40-41BC-9D48-...
> I transferred my documents from my old PC under windows ME to Vista . When
> I
> try to open them I get a whole load of machine language symbols and
> numbers
> as well as the text. How can I get them to open without all that stuff.
> Thanks John.

johnvictor;519796 Wrote:
> I transferred my documents from my old PC under windows ME to Vista .
> When I
> try to open them I get a whole load of machine language symbols and
> numbers
> as well as the text. How can I get them to open without all that stuff.
> Thanks John.

Hi John,

Vista does not have anything that can view WORD documents by default.
If you do not have MS Word or Office installed, then you can use this
free program "TextMaker Viewer" to view them. It works perfectly with
the 32 ot 64 bit Vista.

'TextMaker Viewer - Free Document Viewer for .doc, .odt, .tmd, .rtf and
more' (http://www.officeviewers.com/)

Shawn


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"brink" <> wrote in message news:...
>
> johnvictor;519796 Wrote:
>> I transferred my documents from my old PC under windows ME to Vista .
>> When I
>> try to open them I get a whole load of machine language symbols and
>> numbers
>> as well as the text. How can I get them to open without all that stuff.
>> Thanks John.
>
> Hi John,
>
> Vista does not have anything that can view WORD documents by default.
> If you do not have MS Word or Office installed, then you can use this
> free program "TextMaker Viewer" to view them. It works perfectly with
> the 32 ot 64 bit Vista.
>
> 'TextMaker Viewer - Free Document Viewer for .doc, .odt, .tmd, .rtf and
> more' (http://www.officeviewers.com/)

Or;

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

View, print and copy Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed. This download is a
replacement for Word 97 Viewer and all previous Word Viewer versions.



-Michael

"johnvictor" <> wrote in message
news:44EB93DC-3E40-41BC-9D48-...
>I transferred my documents from my old PC under windows ME to Vista . When
>I
> try to open them I get a whole load of machine language symbols and
> numbers
> as well as the text. How can I get them to open without all that stuff.
> Thanks John.

You obviously need a program that will load up to date .doc files such as MS
Word.
If you don't have a copy of MS Office then I recommend OpenOffice.org which
is an excellent MS Office replacement and it's free open source software.
http://www.openoffice.org
This will open all your .doc files and is an excellent MS Office
replacement.
Regards Mike.

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:49:01 -0800, johnvictor wrote:

> I transferred my documents from my old PC under windows ME to Vista . When I
> try to open them I get a whole load of machine language symbols and numbers
> as well as the text. How can I get them to open without all that stuff.
> Thanks John.

Need more details - what program did you try to read them with? Vista does
not come with MS word installed. If you tried something like wordpad you
would get results similar to what you described.

If word is not installed on your system, you could easily install
OpenOffice.org (free software) which will give you a complete office suite.