To confirm your problem that was posted he
you wanted to save a picture from a webpage, so you " used to"
right-click/copy the picture, then PASTE into wordpad. Right ?
That's all I was trying to help you with.

If you have problems with "RTF files" ( wordpad documents) that's a whole
'nother topic.
So don't conFUSE me !

Is the "picture thing" OK ?

As for "the old wordpad documents", what are their file extensions ? Are
they PICTURES or TEXT ?

HAD you saved them with "filename.RTF" extension ?
And you COULD read them before - but not now ?
copy one - open it on another PC - does it open / look ok there ?
This should become a new thread.


THEO@TO. wrote in message
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:04:04 -0500, "- Bobb -"
wrote:

THEO@TO. wrote in message
m...
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 ?

A lot of the docs I have were made on an older version of Windows
like 95 or 98, and when I started using this computer it kept
telling me it couldn't open Word something or other documents
which they were not, but it wouldn't open them with wordpad. So I
copied the version of wordpad I had from the old computer and
used it to open them with. It worked fine for years until all of
a sudden.

How do you know ?

Because it gives me two choices when I select open with. They
have different icons.

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.

Both versions of wordpad are 5.1. The version that was on this pc
wouldn't open the old .docs I loaded into it, so I put in the
older version of wordpad from my old computer and it worked great
until recently. Then it quit working for all of the docs it had
been opening fine before. I tried making new docs with the
version I loaded from the old pc and now it keeps having
"unexpected" problems or just fails to respond leaving the hour
glass icon hanging around, and sometimes it gives this messag:

You are about to save the document in a Text-Only format, which
will remove all formatting. Are you sure you want to do this?

I made docs with the new version and it seems to work fine, but
it won't open the docs made with the version from my old pc.
Neither will the old version any more, but it had been working
fine. At the moment it looks like I can make docs as I have been
with the version that was already on here, but can't use the
older ones made with the older version any more. I don't want to
lose them.

Why would wordpad not open wordpad docs to begin with? I used
wordpad to make things like that specifically trying to avoid
this sort of problem because every pc has wordpad, so it should
always be easy to few my docs. But this pc said it couldn't open
Word...whatever so I loaded wordpad from my old pc and opened
them with that and it worked fine for year up until now. All of
this is EXACTLY what I was deliberately trying to avoid by using
a common program like wordpad to make docs with pic in them...

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 ?

I opened one of the docs that used to work fine but now does not
and copied everything from it, then pasted it into a paint doc to
see if that would somehow end up showing it like it used to, but
it didn't. I tried the same thing loading it into a doc made with
the later version of wordpad and that didn't work either. I hate
to lose all those old docs all of a sudden for no apparent
reason, but so far that's what looks like is going to
happen...exactly what I've been trying to avoid since before I
ever had the first problem with it...

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?