Windows 10: Wordpad documents being saved to Word

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  1. MIKE773#
    mike773# Win User

    Wordpad documents being saved to Word


    Whenever I save a document in Wordpad, it gets saved to Word. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening?

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    mike773#, Dec 22, 2019
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  2. WHS
    whs Win User

    word documents saved as wordpad documents


    Use 'Save as' and choose from the list of options.


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    whs, Dec 22, 2019
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  3. DESERTBRONZE
    desertbronze Win User
    word documents saved as wordpad documents


    I am using Word 2013 on my laptop. Windows 8 was operating system. Recently upgraded to Windows 10. When I save Word documents now, they are saved as Wordpad documents. (.xml files) Wordpad does not recommend some of the Word formatting and alters the documents.

    How do I correct this? I want the save as Word documents, as I did in the past.

    Thank you.
     
    desertbronze, Dec 22, 2019
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  4. BREE
    Bree Win User

    Wordpad documents being saved to Word

    word to wordpad


    Right-click on the .doc, choose 'Open with...' and select Wordpad. If Wordpad opens it correctly, repeat the exercise, this time ticking the 'Always open with...' box. If Wordpad shows a jumble of weird text, then that particular .doc may well be a genuine Word document. You'll need software that can handle the Word format, either from Microsoft or one of the 'office equivalents' - LibreOffice (the one I would choose) or OpenOffice.

    As you said...
    ...it may well be that they really are in Word format. Did you have Word (or its equivalent) on the machine you imported from?

    Do you still have that machine? If so you could open the documents and save in a format that Wordpad understands - .rtf is a 'lowest common denominator' understood by most apps.
     
    Bree, Dec 22, 2019
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