Guest Deb Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 I have been trying to open an acknowledgement letter and have discovered that the document uses Windows Shell. Does anyone know how I can open this document?
Guest P. Di Stolfo Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Re: windows "shell" Hello, what is the file's extension? Greetings, P. Di Stolfo -- //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // http://blog.lysorp.com - small Windows Blog in German language //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Deb" <Deb@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:FCBC70E9-F154-4385-A41C-3EF66CDFC778@microsoft.com... >I have been trying to open an acknowledgement letter and have discovered >that > the document uses Windows Shell. Does anyone know how I can open this > document?
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Re: windows "shell" On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:16:00 -0700, Deb <Deb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I have been trying to open an acknowledgement letter and have discovered that > the document uses Windows Shell. Does anyone know how I can open this > document? Exactly what did you discover and how did you discover it? How are you trying to open it? What is the name of the file you are trying to open--particularly the last three or four characters after the dot (called the extension)? For example, is it .doc? If so it's a Microsoft Word document, and you need Microsoft Word, or some compatible program, to open it. If the extension is something else, you need some other appropriate program to open it. The extension describes the kind of file it is--the program that was used to create it--and tells Windows what program to open it with. You didn't provide much information to go on, but in general, the usual reason you can't open a file received by E-mail is that you don't have an appropriate program installed. If my guess that you have a .doc file is correct, you would seem not to have Word installed. To open the file, you either need to buy Word, acquire some compatible program, or download and install the free Microsoft Word viewer at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en or http://tinyurl.com/5ye9c Note that that last choice will let you open and read Word /doc files, but not let you create or edit them. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Mark F. Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Re: windows "shell" "Deb" <Deb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FCBC70E9-F154-4385-A41C-3EF66CDFC778@microsoft.com... >I have been trying to open an acknowledgement letter and have discovered >that > the document uses Windows Shell. Does anyone know how I can open this > document? "Windows Shell" refers to many things such as shell functions, user interface, shell macros, shell folders, etc. What is the file extension for the document? Did you try opening the file with wordpad.exe? Even binary files can be opened with Wordpad.exe. You may only see cryptic characters but you should be able to open the file. Mark
Guest Vanguard Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 Re: windows "shell" "Deb" wrote in message news:FCBC70E9-F154-4385-A41C-3EF66CDFC778@microsoft.com... > I have been trying to open an acknowledgement letter and have > discovered that > the document uses Windows Shell. Does anyone know how I can open this > document? If you have been trying to open an acknowledgement letter then you also know the name of that file (attached to e-mail or saved to disk). If it has a filename extension, that indicates what program you need to read it. Until you divulge the extension, no one can give you specific help. Document files, like any data files, do not use any program, including a "windows shell" (which presumably meant the command shell or DOS shell). It's the other way around: programs use data files. A document is not a program so it doesn't need a shell. The document must be read by a program that understands the format used to encode the content of that document.
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