Word Perfect Windows -- Word Pad
 

I sent a Word Perfect document via email to my neighbor. She has Word 11. When she tried printing the document from her email with the attachment, the attachment printed like an overlay in Word Pad. When I tried using Save As and tried to name the document and save it as a Word document, it did not bring up that option. How can we make Word and not Word Pad her default program?

If all you need is to print it, try saving it off as a .pdf file before you send it to her. Most people can view those and print those and they will usually maintain the format. Try file, print, scroll down to pdf to save as a .pdf. Then attach it to an e-mail and send it to her. Also if you still wish to try to have it open with word, after she downloads it, find the file in her list of files and right click on it. There is an an option there that says "open with" and then you have choices of how to open the file. If at first it doesn't give you a choice for Word, you should be able to click on "more" and it should be listed. I'm also thinking that if it truly is a word perfect document I'm not sure you can open that with Microsoft Word 11 or any form of Microsoft Word so a pdf may be the way to go. Hope this works for you.

It is a Word document, not Word Perfect. When I email it to my friend it converts to Word Pad. How can she avoid converting it to Word Pad? When she tried saving the document as a new document, we did not understand the options. Word was not an option but text format was. We tried saving it that way and when we pulled up the new document, it was all gibberish. We want to know how to make Word the default and not Word Pad.

Did you try the suggestion to save it as a pdf before emailing it to your friend?

No, because she wouldn't be able to make revisions on a PDF document.

If your friend right-clicks on a Word document a drop-down menu should appear. On that menu is an "Open With" option. That option should have a choice to default to Word Pad or MS Word. :posting:

I thought Word Perfect was an MS-DOS application, not Windows. Am I wrong?

Maybe this is too simple, but are you sure your friend has Word on her computer?

If she doesn't, she will not be able to open the document properly, without a conversion to some other program.

If the document is not too sensitive, perhaps you could send it to someone here who would convert it for you and send it back.

I am in Yahoo email. The document I want to pull up is a docs document. If I right click on the document, it does not give me the open option you indicated. If I go ahead and open the document and then do a File Save As, the save as types listed are

Web archive, single file (*mht)

Webpage, complete (*.html)
Webpage, single file (*.mht)
Webpage, HTML only (*htm;*.html)
Text file (*. txt)

I have no idea what those extensions are

There are numerous encoding options.

Does this have something to do because we are pulling the document out of a yahoo email?

That should have nothing to do with it. If your document is a .doc file, one of the options should be a save as word format unless Word is not installed. Old versions of Word will not open the files from the latest Word version unless they specifically saved in the older format.

Are you attaching your document to the email or are you inserting INTO the body of the mail? If you put the document into the body, then it is not a document anymore but a part of the email.

If this is not too private, you could email it to me and I will see if I can duplicate your problem or get it into a version of Word that will open OK.
smassy@yahoo.com

Don't have any idea what we did but were finally able to pull it up as a Word document and not Word Pad. Thanks for your help.

I love a good ending. :coolsmiley: