Kathyw

I was using my word or wordpad but it didn't work. Anyway my sick lappy is being collected this afternoon to go to see the dell doctors and hopefully when it comes back some of the problems will be dealt with. I wanted to let you know becasue I will not have internet acces and I didn't want you to think me rude in not reply when you are all trying to help me. It is apreciated and I will come back on your wonderful forum as soon as my lappy is home again. Thank you

Thank you Seth and Dalo for your replies. I do not have Office 2007. The documents (books) were typed using Works/word 2004 and I successfully transferred them from my desktop to my old laptop (both XP). When I tried to open them on this lappy (vista) it just looked like random letters of the alphabet all over the place. Does this mean that my books etc are lost forever unless I use XP? Re Password protect. On the works/word I have on my desktop, I was able to password protect each individual file but that is impossible with vista and I cannot get to grips with the encrypton thing - I like simple as you can see.

I had to get a new laptop, my old one and my desktop both have XPsp2. The new laptop came with vista:eek: I cannot stand it. Anyway when I copied my document files onto the new laptop, all the documents come out with gobbledegook on them. So are useless on the laptop, I cannot work on them at all. Also vista doesn't allow password protect which I would like to have. My laptop (3 months old) is off to the lappy hospital for repair and I would like to know how I can sort these problems out for when it comes back repaired. I have downloaded a free software processor package called Abiword2.6 and it seems great but again no password protect facility for documents. So I have two problems. How can I read my XP documents on vista? And is there a word processor package that just has that and not lots of other stuff I would never use. microsoft word has lots of extras that are of no use to me whatsoever. Am I asking too much? Thank you

Hi my name is Kathy and I am not very good with sorting out problems. Too much technie info is like a foreign language to me. But I hope to get the help I need from those who know best.