How come when I open a Microsoft Word document in Wordpad the text is all messed up?
You’re trying to open a file with an extension that Wordpad doesn’t understand (.doc or .docx depending on your version of Word). If you need to open in Wordpad, first you must open it back up in MS Word and save it as a .txt file. Then you should be able to open it a read it in Wordpad. Although you may loose your formatting in the .txt file. Wordpad is a simple text editor. You cannot do a lot of things in Wordpad that you can do in MS Word. This being the case, Wordpad cannot read alot of the formatting “code” that MS Word puts into a document. I don’t know if I explained it perfectly, hopefully you get the gist though.
