Unable to open Wordpad document

crazyray · February 4th, 2002, 11:52 PM

I have downloaded and unzipped the manual for my Jetway mobo, but I cannot open it. I get a "Unable to load graphics conversion filter" message when I attempt to open it in Wordpad.

Can anyone help?

**EvilRick** · February 4th, 2002, 11:55 PM

It's more than likely an actual Word document. Is the file extension ".doc" ? Wordpad will try to open it by default if you don't have Word installed.

crazyray · February 5th, 2002, 12:03 AM

When I right click on the file and check properties, it says "WordPad Document". The MS-DOS name is "J-994A~1.DOC".

**EvilRick** · February 5th, 2002, 12:08 AM

It says it's a "WordPad" document because the ".doc" is associated with "WordPad". If you had Word installed, when you right-clicked and looked at properties, it would say it was a Word document.

If I'm not mistaken, M$ had a FREE Word viewer. Let me look around and I'll post again.

**EvilRick** · February 5th, 2002, 12:10 AM

Here you go...

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0...00-866165.html

or

http://support.microsoft.com/default...S/Wd97vw32.exe

The second says for 95/NT, but you should still be able to use it on 98 and 2K. BTW, they are both the same file.

KenKun · February 5th, 2002, 12:13 AM

Hi Ray

If you`d like .. send me the file or post a link so i can d/l it.. then i will copy it into text or wordpad file, and email it back to you..

Just a suggestion

Regards

crazyray · February 5th, 2002, 12:33 AM

The word viewer did the job. Many thanks, Rick, and to KenSun for offering help as well.

May I refer you to the "hamster thread" in the Techimo Community forum? I mean, if you have nothing else to do and are not offended by the just plain silly...

Regards,

CR