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My computer's text files have been captured by a Microsoft Word Viewer
that I downloaded (to view Word documents, obviously), so that ALL text
documents I save are saved as Word-type documents. Now someone has
reported that an article, i.e., a text file, I sent him from my computer
didn't open normally for him but was 'garbled, with formatting things
spelled out, rather than simply there as format'. I suspect that
Microsoft Word Viewer was responsible. (Btw, I can't even edit any of
my saved text documents now unless I copy and paste them into another
blank text file: e.g., WordPad. However, when I go to save that file,
it inevitably gets saved as a Word-type file.) How can I keep Microsoft
Word Viewer but only have it open Word documents exclusively, and how
can I stop it saving all of my text files as Word-type documents?
Thanks - Ken
My computer's text files have been captured by a Microsoft Word Viewer
that I downloaded (to view Word documents, obviously), so that ALL text
documents I save are saved as Word-type documents. Now someone has
reported that an article, i.e., a text file, I sent him from my computer
didn't open normally for him but was 'garbled, with formatting things
spelled out, rather than simply there as format'. I suspect that
Microsoft Word Viewer was responsible. (Btw, I can't even edit any of
my saved text documents now unless I copy and paste them into another
blank text file: e.g., WordPad. However, when I go to save that file,
it inevitably gets saved as a Word-type file.) How can I keep Microsoft
Word Viewer but only have it open Word documents exclusively, and how
can I stop it saving all of my text files as Word-type documents?
Thanks - Ken