Solve : WPD file??

1.	Solve : WPD file??
Answer» a friend e-mailed me a photograph as an attachment and when i saved it, it saved as a "WPD" file. the only program i can get to open it is "wordpad", but it shows up as an illegible bunch of symbols and characters like some kind of code. i'm not very knowledgable with computers and have no IDEA how to get this PHOTO attachment to show up correctly. i appologize if this is the wrong forum area for this topic. thanks in advance for any help. Mike http://mike96ws6.com/mike_96_ws6...Unless I'm off base that WPD is a word perfect file extension. If you have word perfect try that or.....MS word may open it or perhaps even Adobe reader .....or better yet have your friend save it in a format you can open . dl65 A tiny bit off topic... but scan all attachments for viruses first, even if they come from a friend. Emails are easy to forge. Quote mike_96_ws6...Unless I'm off base that WPD is a word perfect file extension. If you have word perfect try that or.....MS word may open it or perhaps even Adobe reader .....or better yet have your friend save it in a format you can open . dl65 i don't have 'word perfect' so i ordered it from SoftwareOutlet.com. i tried Adobe Acrobat Reader but it did not open, only a box saying "file does not begin with '%PDF-' ". and 'MS word' shows the same STUFF i get with 'wordpad'. ----------------- Quote Posted by: Neil A tiny bit off topic... but scan all attachments for viruses first, even if they come from a friend. Emails are easy to forge. i have Norton Internet Security 2005, updated 12/2/04 and set to scan all incoming and outgoing e-mail. the attachment scans as "virus free"? ------------------ thanks you both for your replies. hopefully it will open with word perfect when it gets here, which will be a few days {COMING from CA via UPS}. Couldn't you ask your friend to save in another format? You might not need to buy new software then. Since it's a picture file, try opening it in paint or another such program. Usually to get paint, start > programs > accsessoriesFile Extension Details for .WPD (Click)There's a lot of different files using the same extention. If only Microsoft used bigger ones... Personally, I wouldn't have used extentions in the first place... store file type data in the file's header or something... but then, since when was I the programming master? Quote Personally, I wouldn't have used extentions in the first place You donot have to. Set Windows XP to show all (regular) extensions and remove them. There you GO, no more nasty extensions! I take no responsibility for the consequencesI already do that to get blacklisted file types such as .exe into college. They must think I'm so stupid. I can access most of the control panel through help and support.There's an idea.

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a friend e-mailed me a photograph as an attachment and when i saved it, it saved as a "WPD" file. the only program i can get to open it is "wordpad", but it shows up as an illegible bunch of symbols and characters like some kind of code.
i'm not very knowledgable with computers and have no IDEA how to get this PHOTO attachment to show up correctly. i appologize if this is the wrong forum area for this topic.
thanks in advance for any help.
Mike
http://mike96ws6.com/mike_96_ws6...Unless I'm off base that WPD is a word perfect file extension. If you have word perfect try that or.....MS word may open it or perhaps even Adobe reader .....or better yet have your friend save it in a format you can open .

dl65 A tiny bit off topic... but scan all attachments for viruses first, even if they come from a friend. Emails are easy to forge. Quote

mike_96_ws6...Unless I'm off base that WPD is a word perfect file extension. If you have word perfect try that or.....MS word may open it or perhaps even Adobe reader .....or better yet have your friend save it in a format you can open .

dl65

i don't have 'word perfect' so i ordered it from SoftwareOutlet.com. i tried Adobe Acrobat Reader but it did not open, only a box saying "file does not begin with '%PDF-' ". and 'MS word' shows the same STUFF i get with 'wordpad'.
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Posted by: Neil
A tiny bit off topic... but scan all attachments for viruses first, even if they come from a friend. Emails are easy to forge.

i have Norton Internet Security 2005, updated 12/2/04 and set to scan all incoming and outgoing e-mail. the attachment scans as "virus free"?
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thanks you both for your replies. hopefully it will open with word perfect when it gets here, which will be a few days {COMING from CA via UPS}.

Couldn't you ask your friend to save in another format? You might not need to buy new software then.

Since it's a picture file, try opening it in paint or another such program.

Usually to get paint, start > programs > accsessoriesFile Extension Details for .WPD (Click)There's a lot of different files using the same extention. If only Microsoft used bigger ones...

Personally, I wouldn't have used extentions in the first place... store file type data in the file's header or something... but then, since when was I the programming master? Quote

Personally, I wouldn't have used extentions in the first place

You donot have to. Set Windows XP to show all (regular) extensions and remove them.

There you GO, no more nasty extensions!

I take no responsibility for the consequencesI already do that to get blacklisted file types such as .exe into college. They must think I'm so stupid. I can access most of the control panel through help and support.There's an idea.

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