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Answer» Since I am all set-up with OpenOffice and the free trial edition of MS 2010 Office, I thought I would be clever and uninstall MS Works. Now I can not open documents I created in Wordpad. I went to the MS web site to download Works but don't know which version I UNINSTALLED. It said MS Works was reinstalled successfully but it isn't there.It isn't where? Where did you look for it?It isn't listed in the Control Panel or Start>All Programs. When I try to open a Wordpad document with Wordpad, I get gibberish. I can open it with MS 2010 Office but I can't with OpenOffice. When I try OpenOffice I get a dialog box ASKING me to select a filter and I don't see one for Wordpad. Wordpad is still on my computer. I have WinXP. Can I have Wordpad but not MS Works? Quote from: artbuc on March 28, 2011, 04:34:36 PM Can I have Wordpad but not MS Works?Sure. WordPad comes with all Windows systems. MS Works does not and it is not free, although it may SEEM so since it's sometimes installed on new computers by the manufacturer. Ok. How can I recover the MS Works that I stupidly uninstalled? Why is my HP Recovery tool telling me it reinstalled MS Works when it didn't? I am assuming that the absence of MS Works is why I can't open my Wordpad documents. Do you THINK this is the case?Quote from: artbuc on March 28, 2011, 04:56:44 PM Ok. How can I recover the MS Works that I stupidly uninstalled? Why is my HP Recovery tool telling me it reinstalled MS Works when it didn't?Exactly how did you go about trying to reinstall MS Works? I'm not familiar with how MS Works might be separately installed from an "HP Recovery tool". I have a Compaq laptop. If I use the Recovery partition on the hard drive, it will restore the system to exactly the way it was when the computer was new; it will not allow me to pick and choose what gets installed. I would have guessed your HP Recovery tool works the same way but your comments indicate otherwise. So, again, please explain your attempted procedure step by step. Perhaps someone else will be able to assist. Quote from: artbuc on March 28, 2011, 04:56:44 PM I am assuming that the absence of MS Works is why I can't open my Wordpad documents. Do you think this is the case?No. The usual format/file extension for a Works word processing file is .wps. For a Wordpad file, it's .rtf. What is the file extension on the files you are trying, but unable, to open?Ok. So I did create the documents in Works because they are wps files. That must be why I can not open them with Wordpad. Reinstall Process I used: StartChoose "Application Installation" Highlight MS Works 8.0 Click Install After installation is finished, I get message confirming MS Works 8.0 was successfully reinstalled, BUT it isn't!!! well, I don't know why Works does not appear to be installing for you. So, as an alternative solution, I suggest you use http://www.zamzar.com/ to convert your Works, i.e. .wps, files to WordPad or Word format. Thanks. I did a Google search and found another person who had the same experience with HP Application Recovery trying to reinstall Works. I downloaded a converter from MS. You can convert wps files to Word which I can then open with OO. I don't have too many wps files so it isn't a big deal. Thanks alot for your help and interest. OK, sounds like you found a good solution. I see that works to Word converter mentioned at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315757 |
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