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Found the problem. Changed my 32 bit colors to 16. Can see the pictures now.
Must have happened when I upgraded to a 17" screen.
Thanks for the help
"bling" <blingbling@wikipedia.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the link. I now have a working (albeit with red and blue
pics
> only) Word viewer, at least I can read the text again.
>
>
> "bling" <blingbling@wikipedia.com> wrote in message
> news:uTE19QqYFHA.3620@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Thanks Ogg and FuzzyLogic.
> > I'll have a better look around and try the older viewer.
> > People seem to be using Word (and pdf) more and more. MS has got us
by
> > the balls and I reckon Adobe wants to get in the same position ;-).
> > Regarding Open Source. I like Mepis but get irritated by them still
> > demanding a login. Although they *do* have a super selection of games, a
> > good touch typing course, and even a very extensive Planetarium. I'm
> > concentrating on Debian though and waiting for the official release of
> > `Sarge`, which has been said might be the end of this month!
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> >
> > "Ogg" <sorry-nopam-wanted@anywhere.com> wrote in message
> > news
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> > > "bling" <blingbling@wikipedia.com> wrote in message...
> > >
> > > > I use Windows98 but don't have `MS Word`. So to view pictures
sent
> to
> > > me
> > > > in the `.doc` format I've used `wordviewer97` which has been made
> > > available
> > > > by Microsoft for just this purpose.
> > > > However, my pictures are not opening properly anymore, they are
in
> > the
> > > > colors of blue and red only. Thinking my viewer was broken I
> > > redownloaded
> > > > the 97 viewer but with no change to the results. I then deleted my
97
> > > viewer
> > > > and downloaded the `wordviewer 2003`. This gave me the message,
> > "requires
> > > a
> > > > newer version of windows".
> > >
> > > I don't have an explanation for the red-blue limitation - except that
> > maybe
> > > the sender messed up the .doc on Save. Have you checked the SAME file
> on
> > > another system that is equipped to view the .doc files directly with
MS
> > > Word?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Is this an example of Microsoft trying to force people to upgrade
> > from
> > > > Win98 to XP?
> > > > They might find instead that people will `upgrade` to an open
> source
> > OS
> > > > instead.
> > >
> > > I think it is a blessing that MS offers the Viewer(s) for free. I
don't
> > > use/have the MS wordprocessing suite of programs myself (I use
> > WordPerfect),
> > > but the MS Viewer has come in handy. There are two versions the
viewer
> > and
> > > the previous one that supports ('97-2000) is still available since I
> > > recently fetched it for a friends' win98se system. The newer version
> > > ('97-2000) made no sense on the win98 pc since the minimum
requirements
> > > could not be met.
> > >
> > > Open source solution is my tendency too. Knoppix, and now Mepis
> > > (http://www.mepis.com/) seem to be wonderful lowcost solutions for
even
> > > modest (P-I or P-II's) systems.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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