how get wordpad file look right in Word?

[Ian Elliott]

Thanks in advance.

I have a file (with extension .out) that when I open with
Wordpad, looks great, but when I open with Word (right
click file, open with, File Conversion, and it
automatically choose Unicode UTF-8. I have tried other
conversion methods and they all look bad), the lines run
over into the next row.
I think if I adjust the right margins it should look fine,
and I am trying that, but I figure if Wordpad can open it
fine, Word should be able to also.
I don't know if the file is rich format or ANSI this or
ANSI that, but is there a way to get Word to spread the
width of the paper to as long as the farthest over
carriage return or some other way to fix this?
Thanks again.

 

[Rob Schneider]

Thanks in advance.

I have a file (with extension .out) that when I open with
Wordpad, looks great, but when I open with Word (right
click file, open with, File Conversion, and it
automatically choose Unicode UTF-8. I have tried other
conversion methods and they all look bad), the lines run
over into the next row.
I think if I adjust the right margins it should look fine,
and I am trying that, but I figure if Wordpad can open it
fine, Word should be able to also.
I don't know if the file is rich format or ANSI this or
ANSI that, but is there a way to get Word to spread the
width of the paper to as long as the farthest over
carriage return or some other way to fix this?
Thanks again.

I believe that Wordpad can only open files that are text, rtf, or Word
doc files. I think that the file extension .out is immaterial here.
Guess what I would try is a couple of things (and from that learn a
little more about how all this is working).

Look at the file in notepad. If you see the text easily, it's a text
file. If you see text but with "special" text formatting instructions,
it's rtf. If you see gobbleygook, it's a binary Word doc file (probably
unlikely).

Based on above, rename the file extension to whatever you determine it
to be, e.g. .txt, or .rtf, or .doc and then open with Word so that it
applies a conversion (if necessary) that may work.