THEO@TO. wrote in message
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It's not really a Notepad icon after all, but it is a text icon
just white with black lines and the spiral looking thing across
the top.


That spiral icon IS wordpad.

Oh. My bad. It does say it's wordpad, but still does the text
only thing.

I right clicked on a WordPad icon and selected Run as...

WHY did you do that ?
"Run as... " means to RUN the program AS another user.
Reread previous message - in explorer , you want to "Open With" .

I've done that a number of times. There are two versions of
wordpad on this machine

WHY ? How do you know ?
If they are different - rename "the new one" to wordpad/new for now
( BTW, this is getting too involved to contnue this way)

and I've opened it with both of them, and
with the same result. Going to File Types, DOC files open with
wordpad and there is only the one listing of DOC files which is
what these are.

Listen to me - for the next 30 minutes: FORGET that " I used to ..." ,
forget that "they end in .DOC"

Make a file abc.xyz and right-click "OPEN WITH"
choose Wordpad. Now "do your thing" /paste etc.
Does it work ?
YES - great
NO = it's not an extension problem ( .doc) it's a program problem and
messing with .doc vs xyz vs abc won't change it.

Did you copy/paint " google icon" as I did ?
Did that work ?

I copied a .jpg and pasted it into a paint document,

not just " a JPG" - to clarify:
DO EXACTLY WHAT FAILS IN WORDPAD.
Did you ?
If you want to copy while online and paste into wordpad, then "copy while
online and paste into " PAINT. if same BAD icon then it's not the
paint/wordpad program - it's the INPUT.
Get it - you need to determine :
Is it a bad picture ? ( via IE or java or whatever)
or is it a program problem ?

but I still
want to be able to go back to doing it with wordpad since I've
already got a bunch of wordpad documents that used to work fine
and then all of a sudden stopped working. Something changed. How
do you put text in paint docs, btw?

Choose the TEXT icon ( I'm not being funny - you'll see a "big A" - click it
for a text box)
This isn't an online course - please just try "paint vs wordpad".

I tried copying the info from one of the wordpad docs and pasting
it into a paint doc to see if that would work, but it didn't.

WHAT ? Huh ?

Does wordpad actually display the images that are pasted into it,
or is it another program that's responsible for making images
look like images in wordpad docs?