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[Dieter]

(08-28-2017 06:07 AM)Chris Dreher Wrote:  The problem? WordPad is incompatible with WRI files and there are no handy utilities to convert WRI files... except that open source LibreOffice does. LibreOffice saved my bacon.

Ah, Windows Write. My first encounter with a WYSIWYG word processor in the days of Windows 3.0. But... at least up to Windows XP the Wordpad version that came with the OS was able to read Write files. So do several versions of Word, at least up to Word 2000. Not sure about the latest versions, though.

It wouldn't have been a good idea of Microsoft to switch to Wordpad without supporting the files of its direct predecessor. ;-)

Dieter