I have a question about RTF documents which arises from my sieve-like memory.
My sieve-mmory can't recall how my My Documents folder came to include some RTF documents. Of course, you can't remember for me, but maybe you could explain RTF documents and that might help me remmeber.
All of the documents look like something I copied onto my hard drive from hard copies, using my scanner/copier.
All of them have a title with this format:
07-30-2005 07;30;48PM.RTF
And accompanying each is the same document with the same title, except with a wpm extension instead of the RTF extension.
I can't imagine that I would myself have put in those titles containing the date and time. So, I wonder, were they somehow automatically assigned?
This may not make any sense, or it may seem too ridiculous a question. In either case, I can understand your just scrathing your head or smiling a benevolent smile and going on to something else.
signed: embarrassed
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You may have created some documents in Corel/s WordPerfect and saved them as a "RICH TEXT FORMAT" file (.rtf)..If those files also included a macro of some sort, then the .wpm file would have also been created and saved automatically..
A number of different programs are able to save documents in Rich Text Format but the only one that also creates a .wpm file is WordPerfect.
Hope this helps.
Grif
I do have WordPerfect, though I am not aware of ever having used it. Perhaps it is a default of some kind that comes into play when I scan something into my hard drive.
...on YOUR original post which indicated the presence of a .wpM file with the .rtf files...Your second post showed that it wasn't a .wpM file but instead a .wpS file...And as you've found out, a .wpS file is the result of using the Microsoft Works program.
I'm glad you got it figured out.
Grif
I just scanned some instructions that are in real small print onto my hard drive so that I could print them in larger print. I see that the instructions show up in MYDocuments with the same kind of RTF as mention in my post. And, when I open it in MS Works, it then shows up a second time in MyDocuments with the wps extention. So so problem is solved
The documetn I referred to are mostly pages from a magazine. I'd be more specific, but if I did that then I'd have to kell you. (I've been wanting a chance to says that every since someone said it to me.)
Thanks for replying, Jack
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