can't open .txt file from Windows Explorer

c:\programs\accessories\wordpad.exe.

I think Gary may have hit it on the head, I am copying, basically, a table
of odds on race horses and pasting in wordpad in text format. With firefox it
keeps proper spaces between the numbers, while IE does not.

Thanks for your help.


"Ron Badour" wrote:

What is the complete address (C:\programs~~~Wordpad.exe ) and where is
Wordpad.exe actually located.
--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"jms" wrote in message
...
Also if I change C:\programs~~~Wordpad.exe in any way I get a message:
Cannot find program.

"Ron Badour" wrote:

I assume that you always want WordPad to open .txt documents instead of
NotePad. If so, open Windows Explorer, click on view, folder options,
file
types tab and scroll down to Text Document. Double click "text document"
and on the resulting screen, double click "open." In the application
used
box, paste this: C:\Progra~1\Access~1\WORDPAD.EXE "%1" and click OK
and
close up the screens.

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"jms" wrote in message
...
When I click on any .txt file in Explorer I get error message:

C:\My
Cannot find this file
Please verify that the correct path and filename are given

The C:\My is supposed to be C:\My Documents\File folder\file.txt.
If this is the problem how can I change the C:\My to C:\My Documents?
In Explorer when I right click on the filename and choose Properties
the
dialog box shows the proper Location: C:\My Documents\File folder\File
so
apparently the proper information is in the file details.

The files being opened are .txt files being opened with WordPad.

I am going to Brisbet.com, I have an account there. On second page choose a
track. On next page choose pools. It give you a table of odds for the
horses in the race. If I right click and "select all" then copy, then paste
in Wordpad document using "text document" everything is pretty well lined up,
I may have to insert a few tabs. But, it will not show up in the Wordpad
document if I use IE. So I use Firefox and It will. But, my problem then is
when I later go into Explorer and click on the name of the file I chose to
save under it won't open. But, it will open if I open Wordpad first and then
open the file I want.

Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:


"jms" wrote in message
...
First, thank you for your help.

WordPad is installed. I can first open WordPad and then identify the file
I
want to open and it will open OK. It's only when I click on the file in
Explorer that I have the problem.

Does that apply to *all* TXT files you try to open by double-clicking? Also,
you didn't tell me the full path to your WordPad.exe, to verify what command
should be used in the FileType.

The files I have the problem with are information I have copied from the
internet that has a little bit of formatting, tabs, spacing, etc., that I
want to retain. I have been doing this so long I don't remember if I ever
tried notpad.

The only other thing I know is that if I copy the same information using
Windows Internet Explorer it will not retain the formating, that is why I
use
the copy command in Firefox. Maybe this is the problem, however this
works
OK in windows XP but not the the machine I am currently using which is
98SE.
Again, thanks.

If they include formatting, then they shouldn't be saved as TXT files. they
should probably be saved as RTF or DOC. Tell you the truth, I'm a bit lost
regarding what you're trying to do. Do you have an example web page I could
look at? And can you tell me precisely what steps you use, both in IE and in
FF? When I, for example, highlight stuff in IE and then Ctr-C to copy and
Ctrl-V to paste into a new WordPad document, all formatting, links, etc.,
are fairly well maintained, with teh exception of image placeholders and
tables getting out of whack.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Possibly, you haven't got WordPad installed. It's an optional item in
Add/Remove Program, Windows Setup tab, Accessories section (highlight
Accessories and click on Details.)

Use find to look for WordPad.exe. Does it exist on your machine? If so,
what's the pull path to it?

Note that normally, TXT files open with Notepad unless they are over
64KB,
in which case you are prompted to use WordPad. Do you really want your
TXT
files associated with WordPad, or do you want things to be the way
they're
"supposed" to be? Note that editing certain types of plain text files in
WordPad instead of Notepad, specifically system configuration files,
scripts, etc., can cause them to not work anymore, since WordPad will
insert
formatting characters that mess things up if it's not set correctly.
IOW,
it's much safer to use Notepad for most TXT or other plain text files.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

Hey, all I can say is that my Win98 WordPad does the same thing when copying
from IE to WordPad. My *guess* is that when you copy from IE to the
Clipboard (which is where Copied stuff gets temporarily stored) it copies
not just the rendered items (text, images, other objects) but rather also
copies the underlying code. When you Paste that stuff into Notepad, the OLE
procedures rightly only paste rendered text, though just how that works I
can't say. Not my department. But if you paste it into MSWord, it will take
some time and eventually render it as seen on the website. If I save that,
and then copy from that Word doc into WordPad, it works.

Fact is, I can't copy the text from this message I'm writing in OE into
WordPad, not even after toggling the RichText/PlainText keys. Because it's
simply not just the text that gets copied. Verdict: Unless it's due to
having installed Word and/or other Office apps, I would have to conclude
that this is just the way WordPad in Windows 98 is. The solution is to stop
using word for this purpose and use something else. Meta-Pad or whatever (to
get around the limitations of Notepad.)

But you lost me on the rest. Once you have the rendered plain text pasted
into WordPad, however you manage it, you then do what? Save it as Plain text
(TXT) file? In WordPad's Save or SaveAs dialogue, do you choose Plain text
from the drop-down menu, or just name it brisbet.txt, or what? Also, TXT
files are not normally associated with WordPad, but that seems to be what
you expect. So we're back to the FileType issue -- what, exactly, do you
have in your FileType listing for TXT files?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
I am going to Brisbet.com, I have an account there. On second page choose
a
track. On next page choose pools. It give you a table of odds for the
horses in the race. If I right click and "select all" then copy, then
paste
in Wordpad document using "text document" everything is pretty well lined
up,
I may have to insert a few tabs. But, it will not show up in the Wordpad
document if I use IE. So I use Firefox and It will. But, my problem then
is
when I later go into Explorer and click on the name of the file I chose to
save under it won't open. But, it will open if I open Wordpad first and
then
open the file I want.

Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:


"jms" wrote in message
...
First, thank you for your help.

WordPad is installed. I can first open WordPad and then identify the
file
I
want to open and it will open OK. It's only when I click on the file
in
Explorer that I have the problem.

Does that apply to *all* TXT files you try to open by double-clicking?
Also,
you didn't tell me the full path to your WordPad.exe, to verify what
command
should be used in the FileType.

The files I have the problem with are information I have copied from
the
internet that has a little bit of formatting, tabs, spacing, etc.,
that I
want to retain. I have been doing this so long I don't remember if I
ever
tried notpad.

The only other thing I know is that if I copy the same information
using
Windows Internet Explorer it will not retain the formating, that is
why I
use
the copy command in Firefox. Maybe this is the problem, however this
works
OK in windows XP but not the the machine I am currently using which is
98SE.
Again, thanks.

If they include formatting, then they shouldn't be saved as TXT files.
they
should probably be saved as RTF or DOC. Tell you the truth, I'm a bit
lost
regarding what you're trying to do. Do you have an example web page I
could
look at? And can you tell me precisely what steps you use, both in IE
and in
FF? When I, for example, highlight stuff in IE and then Ctr-C to copy
and
Ctrl-V to paste into a new WordPad document, all formatting, links,
etc.,
are fairly well maintained, with teh exception of image placeholders and
tables getting out of whack.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Possibly, you haven't got WordPad installed. It's an optional item
in
Add/Remove Program, Windows Setup tab, Accessories section
(highlight
Accessories and click on Details.)

Use find to look for WordPad.exe. Does it exist on your machine? If
so,
what's the pull path to it?

Note that normally, TXT files open with Notepad unless they are over
64KB,
in which case you are prompted to use WordPad. Do you really want
your
TXT
files associated with WordPad, or do you want things to be the way
they're
"supposed" to be? Note that editing certain types of plain text
files in
WordPad instead of Notepad, specifically system configuration files,
scripts, etc., can cause them to not work anymore, since WordPad
will
insert
formatting characters that mess things up if it's not set correctly.
IOW,
it's much safer to use Notepad for most TXT or other plain text
files.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

I start off opening word pad, click on the open new document, in the dialogue
box select text document, OK, then just paste what is in clipboard. I then
have most of the formatting unless the horses name is very short in which
case I have to insert some tabs to get that line to line up in columns with
other lines.
But, we are getting off the subject, I think. I want to click on the
filename in Explorer and open the file. The wordpad program starts, but I
get a dialog box thas says:
C:\My
Cannot find this file.
Please verify that the correct path and file name are given.

Shouldn't the line
C:\My
actually read
C:\My Documents
That is my question.
Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Hey, all I can say is that my Win98 WordPad does the same thing when copying
from IE to WordPad. My *guess* is that when you copy from IE to the
Clipboard (which is where Copied stuff gets temporarily stored) it copies
not just the rendered items (text, images, other objects) but rather also
copies the underlying code. When you Paste that stuff into Notepad, the OLE
procedures rightly only paste rendered text, though just how that works I
can't say. Not my department. But if you paste it into MSWord, it will take
some time and eventually render it as seen on the website. If I save that,
and then copy from that Word doc into WordPad, it works.

Fact is, I can't copy the text from this message I'm writing in OE into
WordPad, not even after toggling the RichText/PlainText keys. Because it's
simply not just the text that gets copied. Verdict: Unless it's due to
having installed Word and/or other Office apps, I would have to conclude
that this is just the way WordPad in Windows 98 is. The solution is to stop
using word for this purpose and use something else. Meta-Pad or whatever (to
get around the limitations of Notepad.)

But you lost me on the rest. Once you have the rendered plain text pasted
into WordPad, however you manage it, you then do what? Save it as Plain text
(TXT) file? In WordPad's Save or SaveAs dialogue, do you choose Plain text
from the drop-down menu, or just name it brisbet.txt, or what? Also, TXT
files are not normally associated with WordPad, but that seems to be what
you expect. So we're back to the FileType issue -- what, exactly, do you
have in your FileType listing for TXT files?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
I am going to Brisbet.com, I have an account there. On second page choose
a
track. On next page choose pools. It give you a table of odds for the
horses in the race. If I right click and "select all" then copy, then
paste
in Wordpad document using "text document" everything is pretty well lined
up,
I may have to insert a few tabs. But, it will not show up in the Wordpad
document if I use IE. So I use Firefox and It will. But, my problem then
is
when I later go into Explorer and click on the name of the file I chose to
save under it won't open. But, it will open if I open Wordpad first and
then
open the file I want.

Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:


"jms" wrote in message
...
First, thank you for your help.

WordPad is installed. I can first open WordPad and then identify the
file
I
want to open and it will open OK. It's only when I click on the file
in
Explorer that I have the problem.

Does that apply to *all* TXT files you try to open by double-clicking?
Also,
you didn't tell me the full path to your WordPad.exe, to verify what
command
should be used in the FileType.

The files I have the problem with are information I have copied from
the
internet that has a little bit of formatting, tabs, spacing, etc.,
that I
want to retain. I have been doing this so long I don't remember if I
ever
tried notpad.

The only other thing I know is that if I copy the same information
using
Windows Internet Explorer it will not retain the formating, that is
why I
use
the copy command in Firefox. Maybe this is the problem, however this
works
OK in windows XP but not the the machine I am currently using which is
98SE.
Again, thanks.

If they include formatting, then they shouldn't be saved as TXT files.
they
should probably be saved as RTF or DOC. Tell you the truth, I'm a bit
lost
regarding what you're trying to do. Do you have an example web page I
could
look at? And can you tell me precisely what steps you use, both in IE
and in
FF? When I, for example, highlight stuff in IE and then Ctr-C to copy
and
Ctrl-V to paste into a new WordPad document, all formatting, links,
etc.,
are fairly well maintained, with teh exception of image placeholders and
tables getting out of whack.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Possibly, you haven't got WordPad installed. It's an optional item
in
Add/Remove Program, Windows Setup tab, Accessories section
(highlight
Accessories and click on Details.)

Use find to look for WordPad.exe. Does it exist on your machine? If
so,
what's the pull path to it?

Note that normally, TXT files open with Notepad unless they are over
64KB,
in which case you are prompted to use WordPad. Do you really want
your
TXT
files associated with WordPad, or do you want things to be the way
they're
"supposed" to be? Note that editing certain types of plain text
files in
WordPad instead of Notepad, specifically system configuration files,
scripts, etc., can cause them to not work anymore, since WordPad
will
insert
formatting characters that mess things up if it's not set correctly.
IOW,
it's much safer to use Notepad for most TXT or other plain text
files.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

Very simply, the FileType entry is incorrect. That is why we've been asking
you to report *exactly* what is entered into the properties of the filetype
for the extension you're working with. Assuming that it's the TXT extension,
look in FileTypes tab of Folder Options for "Tex Document". Click on Edit,
then click on Open (assuming Open is bolded, which I assume it is.) Click on
Edit again and tell us what is listed there.

Do you see the extensions of files like TXT and EXE, etc., when browsing
files in Windows Explorer?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
I start off opening word pad, click on the open new document, in the
dialogue
box select text document, OK, then just paste what is in clipboard. I then
have most of the formatting unless the horses name is very short in which
case I have to insert some tabs to get that line to line up in columns
with
other lines.
But, we are getting off the subject, I think. I want to click on the
filename in Explorer and open the file. The wordpad program starts, but I
get a dialog box thas says:
C:\My
Cannot find this file.
Please verify that the correct path and file name are given.

Shouldn't the line
C:\My
actually read
C:\My Documents
That is my question.
Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Hey, all I can say is that my Win98 WordPad does the same thing when
copying
from IE to WordPad. My *guess* is that when you copy from IE to the
Clipboard (which is where Copied stuff gets temporarily stored) it
copies
not just the rendered items (text, images, other objects) but rather
also
copies the underlying code. When you Paste that stuff into Notepad, the
OLE
procedures rightly only paste rendered text, though just how that works
I
can't say. Not my department. But if you paste it into MSWord, it will
take
some time and eventually render it as seen on the website. If I save
that,
and then copy from that Word doc into WordPad, it works.

Fact is, I can't copy the text from this message I'm writing in OE into
WordPad, not even after toggling the RichText/PlainText keys. Because
it's
simply not just the text that gets copied. Verdict: Unless it's due to
having installed Word and/or other Office apps, I would have to conclude
that this is just the way WordPad in Windows 98 is. The solution is to
stop
using word for this purpose and use something else. Meta-Pad or whatever
(to
get around the limitations of Notepad.)

But you lost me on the rest. Once you have the rendered plain text
pasted
into WordPad, however you manage it, you then do what? Save it as Plain
text
(TXT) file? In WordPad's Save or SaveAs dialogue, do you choose Plain
text
from the drop-down menu, or just name it brisbet.txt, or what? Also, TXT
files are not normally associated with WordPad, but that seems to be
what
you expect. So we're back to the FileType issue -- what, exactly, do you
have in your FileType listing for TXT files?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
I am going to Brisbet.com, I have an account there. On second page
choose
a
track. On next page choose pools. It give you a table of odds for
the
horses in the race. If I right click and "select all" then copy, then
paste
in Wordpad document using "text document" everything is pretty well
lined
up,
I may have to insert a few tabs. But, it will not show up in the
Wordpad
document if I use IE. So I use Firefox and It will. But, my problem
then
is
when I later go into Explorer and click on the name of the file I
chose to
save under it won't open. But, it will open if I open Wordpad first
and
then
open the file I want.

Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:


"jms" wrote in message
...
First, thank you for your help.

WordPad is installed. I can first open WordPad and then identify
the
file
I
want to open and it will open OK. It's only when I click on the
file
in
Explorer that I have the problem.

Does that apply to *all* TXT files you try to open by
double-clicking?
Also,
you didn't tell me the full path to your WordPad.exe, to verify what
command
should be used in the FileType.

The files I have the problem with are information I have copied
from
the
internet that has a little bit of formatting, tabs, spacing, etc.,
that I
want to retain. I have been doing this so long I don't remember if
I
ever
tried notpad.

The only other thing I know is that if I copy the same information
using
Windows Internet Explorer it will not retain the formating, that
is
why I
use
the copy command in Firefox. Maybe this is the problem, however
this
works
OK in windows XP but not the the machine I am currently using
which is
98SE.
Again, thanks.

If they include formatting, then they shouldn't be saved as TXT
files.
they
should probably be saved as RTF or DOC. Tell you the truth, I'm a
bit
lost
regarding what you're trying to do. Do you have an example web page
I
could
look at? And can you tell me precisely what steps you use, both in
IE
and in
FF? When I, for example, highlight stuff in IE and then Ctr-C to
copy
and
Ctrl-V to paste into a new WordPad document, all formatting, links,
etc.,
are fairly well maintained, with teh exception of image placeholders
and
tables getting out of whack.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Possibly, you haven't got WordPad installed. It's an optional
item
in
Add/Remove Program, Windows Setup tab, Accessories section
(highlight
Accessories and click on Details.)

Use find to look for WordPad.exe. Does it exist on your machine?
If
so,
what's the pull path to it?

Note that normally, TXT files open with Notepad unless they are
over
64KB,
in which case you are prompted to use WordPad. Do you really
want
your
TXT
files associated with WordPad, or do you want things to be the
way
they're
"supposed" to be? Note that editing certain types of plain text
files in
WordPad instead of Notepad, specifically system configuration
files,
scripts, etc., can cause them to not work anymore, since WordPad
will
insert
formatting characters that mess things up if it's not set
correctly.
IOW,
it's much safer to use Notepad for most TXT or other plain text
files.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

Going back to my post of 11 Oct, you are getting the C:\My error message
because the "%1" is missing from this line:
C:\PROGRA~1\ACCESS~1\WORDPAD.EXE "%1"

I am not sure why you are getting the error message you reported back
then--maybe it was because you tried to alter the line instead of totally
replacing it. Use copy and paste to replace the line you have with this
line:

C:\PROGRA~1\ACCESS~1\WORDPAD.EXE "%1"

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"jms" wrote in message
...
I start off opening word pad, click on the open new document, in the
dialogue
box select text document, OK, then just paste what is in clipboard. I then
have most of the formatting unless the horses name is very short in which
case I have to insert some tabs to get that line to line up in columns
with
other lines.
But, we are getting off the subject, I think. I want to click on the
filename in Explorer and open the file. The wordpad program starts, but I
get a dialog box thas says:
C:\My
Cannot find this file.
Please verify that the correct path and file name are given.

Shouldn't the line
C:\My
actually read
C:\My Documents
That is my question.
Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Hey, all I can say is that my Win98 WordPad does the same thing when
copying
from IE to WordPad. My *guess* is that when you copy from IE to the
Clipboard (which is where Copied stuff gets temporarily stored) it copies
not just the rendered items (text, images, other objects) but rather also
copies the underlying code. When you Paste that stuff into Notepad, the
OLE
procedures rightly only paste rendered text, though just how that works I
can't say. Not my department. But if you paste it into MSWord, it will
take
some time and eventually render it as seen on the website. If I save
that,
and then copy from that Word doc into WordPad, it works.

Fact is, I can't copy the text from this message I'm writing in OE into
WordPad, not even after toggling the RichText/PlainText keys. Because
it's
simply not just the text that gets copied. Verdict: Unless it's due to
having installed Word and/or other Office apps, I would have to conclude
that this is just the way WordPad in Windows 98 is. The solution is to
stop
using word for this purpose and use something else. Meta-Pad or whatever
(to
get around the limitations of Notepad.)

But you lost me on the rest. Once you have the rendered plain text pasted
into WordPad, however you manage it, you then do what? Save it as Plain
text
(TXT) file? In WordPad's Save or SaveAs dialogue, do you choose Plain
text
from the drop-down menu, or just name it brisbet.txt, or what? Also, TXT
files are not normally associated with WordPad, but that seems to be what
you expect. So we're back to the FileType issue -- what, exactly, do you
have in your FileType listing for TXT files?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
I am going to Brisbet.com, I have an account there. On second page
choose
a
track. On next page choose pools. It give you a table of odds for the
horses in the race. If I right click and "select all" then copy, then
paste
in Wordpad document using "text document" everything is pretty well
lined
up,
I may have to insert a few tabs. But, it will not show up in the
Wordpad
document if I use IE. So I use Firefox and It will. But, my problem
then
is
when I later go into Explorer and click on the name of the file I chose
to
save under it won't open. But, it will open if I open Wordpad first and
then
open the file I want.

Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:


"jms" wrote in message
...
First, thank you for your help.

WordPad is installed. I can first open WordPad and then identify
the
file
I
want to open and it will open OK. It's only when I click on the
file
in
Explorer that I have the problem.

Does that apply to *all* TXT files you try to open by
double-clicking?
Also,
you didn't tell me the full path to your WordPad.exe, to verify what
command
should be used in the FileType.

The files I have the problem with are information I have copied
from
the
internet that has a little bit of formatting, tabs, spacing, etc.,
that I
want to retain. I have been doing this so long I don't remember if
I
ever
tried notpad.

The only other thing I know is that if I copy the same information
using
Windows Internet Explorer it will not retain the formating, that is
why I
use
the copy command in Firefox. Maybe this is the problem, however
this
works
OK in windows XP but not the the machine I am currently using which
is
98SE.
Again, thanks.

If they include formatting, then they shouldn't be saved as TXT
files.
they
should probably be saved as RTF or DOC. Tell you the truth, I'm a bit
lost
regarding what you're trying to do. Do you have an example web page I
could
look at? And can you tell me precisely what steps you use, both in IE
and in
FF? When I, for example, highlight stuff in IE and then Ctr-C to copy
and
Ctrl-V to paste into a new WordPad document, all formatting, links,
etc.,
are fairly well maintained, with teh exception of image placeholders
and
tables getting out of whack.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Possibly, you haven't got WordPad installed. It's an optional
item
in
Add/Remove Program, Windows Setup tab, Accessories section
(highlight
Accessories and click on Details.)

Use find to look for WordPad.exe. Does it exist on your machine?
If
so,
what's the pull path to it?

Note that normally, TXT files open with Notepad unless they are
over
64KB,
in which case you are prompted to use WordPad. Do you really want
your
TXT
files associated with WordPad, or do you want things to be the
way
they're
"supposed" to be? Note that editing certain types of plain text
files in
WordPad instead of Notepad, specifically system configuration
files,
scripts, etc., can cause them to not work anymore, since WordPad
will
insert
formatting characters that mess things up if it's not set
correctly.
IOW,
it's much safer to use Notepad for most TXT or other plain text
files.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

OK. I went to Explorer, click on Tools, click on Folder Options, click on
File Types, click on Text Document, it says Extension: TXT RTX DIC EXC then
Content Type (MIME) text/plain, Then Opens with WORDPAD.
Then when I click on EDIT and then OPEN and then EDIT I get
c:\program files\accessories\wordpad.exe


Yes I do see extensions of files like TXT and EXE when browsing files in
Explorer.

Thanks.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Very simply, the FileType entry is incorrect. That is why we've been asking
you to report *exactly* what is entered into the properties of the filetype
for the extension you're working with. Assuming that it's the TXT extension,
look in FileTypes tab of Folder Options for "Tex Document". Click on Edit,
then click on Open (assuming Open is bolded, which I assume it is.) Click on
Edit again and tell us what is listed there.

Do you see the extensions of files like TXT and EXE, etc., when browsing
files in Windows Explorer?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
I start off opening word pad, click on the open new document, in the
dialogue
box select text document, OK, then just paste what is in clipboard. I then
have most of the formatting unless the horses name is very short in which
case I have to insert some tabs to get that line to line up in columns
with
other lines.
But, we are getting off the subject, I think. I want to click on the
filename in Explorer and open the file. The wordpad program starts, but I
get a dialog box thas says:
C:\My
Cannot find this file.
Please verify that the correct path and file name are given.

Shouldn't the line
C:\My
actually read
C:\My Documents
That is my question.
Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Hey, all I can say is that my Win98 WordPad does the same thing when
copying
from IE to WordPad. My *guess* is that when you copy from IE to the
Clipboard (which is where Copied stuff gets temporarily stored) it
copies
not just the rendered items (text, images, other objects) but rather
also
copies the underlying code. When you Paste that stuff into Notepad, the
OLE
procedures rightly only paste rendered text, though just how that works
I
can't say. Not my department. But if you paste it into MSWord, it will
take
some time and eventually render it as seen on the website. If I save
that,
and then copy from that Word doc into WordPad, it works.

Fact is, I can't copy the text from this message I'm writing in OE into
WordPad, not even after toggling the RichText/PlainText keys. Because
it's
simply not just the text that gets copied. Verdict: Unless it's due to
having installed Word and/or other Office apps, I would have to conclude
that this is just the way WordPad in Windows 98 is. The solution is to
stop
using word for this purpose and use something else. Meta-Pad or whatever
(to
get around the limitations of Notepad.)

But you lost me on the rest. Once you have the rendered plain text
pasted
into WordPad, however you manage it, you then do what? Save it as Plain
text
(TXT) file? In WordPad's Save or SaveAs dialogue, do you choose Plain
text
from the drop-down menu, or just name it brisbet.txt, or what? Also, TXT
files are not normally associated with WordPad, but that seems to be
what
you expect. So we're back to the FileType issue -- what, exactly, do you
have in your FileType listing for TXT files?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
I am going to Brisbet.com, I have an account there. On second page
choose
a
track. On next page choose pools. It give you a table of odds for
the
horses in the race. If I right click and "select all" then copy, then
paste
in Wordpad document using "text document" everything is pretty well
lined
up,
I may have to insert a few tabs. But, it will not show up in the
Wordpad
document if I use IE. So I use Firefox and It will. But, my problem
then
is
when I later go into Explorer and click on the name of the file I
chose to
save under it won't open. But, it will open if I open Wordpad first
and
then
open the file I want.

Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:


"jms" wrote in message
...
First, thank you for your help.

WordPad is installed. I can first open WordPad and then identify
the
file
I
want to open and it will open OK. It's only when I click on the
file
in
Explorer that I have the problem.

Does that apply to *all* TXT files you try to open by
double-clicking?
Also,
you didn't tell me the full path to your WordPad.exe, to verify what
command
should be used in the FileType.

The files I have the problem with are information I have copied
from
the
internet that has a little bit of formatting, tabs, spacing, etc.,
that I
want to retain. I have been doing this so long I don't remember if
I
ever
tried notpad.

The only other thing I know is that if I copy the same information
using
Windows Internet Explorer it will not retain the formating, that
is
why I
use
the copy command in Firefox. Maybe this is the problem, however
this
works
OK in windows XP but not the the machine I am currently using
which is
98SE.
Again, thanks.

If they include formatting, then they shouldn't be saved as TXT
files.
they
should probably be saved as RTF or DOC. Tell you the truth, I'm a
bit
lost
regarding what you're trying to do. Do you have an example web page
I
could
look at? And can you tell me precisely what steps you use, both in
IE
and in
FF? When I, for example, highlight stuff in IE and then Ctr-C to
copy
and
Ctrl-V to paste into a new WordPad document, all formatting, links,
etc.,
are fairly well maintained, with teh exception of image placeholders
and
tables getting out of whack.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Possibly, you haven't got WordPad installed. It's an optional
item
in
Add/Remove Program, Windows Setup tab, Accessories section
(highlight
Accessories and click on Details.)

Use find to look for WordPad.exe. Does it exist on your machine?
If
so,
what's the pull path to it?

Note that normally, TXT files open with Notepad unless they are
over
64KB,
in which case you are prompted to use WordPad. Do you really
want
your
TXT
files associated with WordPad, or do you want things to be the
way
they're
"supposed" to be? Note that editing certain types of plain text
files in
WordPad instead of Notepad, specifically system configuration
files,
scripts, etc., can cause them to not work anymore, since WordPad
will
insert
formatting characters that mess things up if it's not set
correctly.
IOW,
it's much safer to use Notepad for most TXT or other plain text
files.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

OK it works now. When I tried it before I must have been in a different
place and it would not take the "%1". Thanks for staying with me and helping
me figure this out.

"Ron Badour" wrote:

Going back to my post of 11 Oct, you are getting the C:\My error message
because the "%1" is missing from this line:
C:\PROGRA~1\ACCESS~1\WORDPAD.EXE "%1"

I am not sure why you are getting the error message you reported back
then--maybe it was because you tried to alter the line instead of totally
replacing it. Use copy and paste to replace the line you have with this
line:

C:\PROGRA~1\ACCESS~1\WORDPAD.EXE "%1"

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"jms" wrote in message
...
I start off opening word pad, click on the open new document, in the
dialogue
box select text document, OK, then just paste what is in clipboard. I then
have most of the formatting unless the horses name is very short in which
case I have to insert some tabs to get that line to line up in columns
with
other lines.
But, we are getting off the subject, I think. I want to click on the
filename in Explorer and open the file. The wordpad program starts, but I
get a dialog box thas says:
C:\My
Cannot find this file.
Please verify that the correct path and file name are given.

Shouldn't the line
C:\My
actually read
C:\My Documents
That is my question.
Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Hey, all I can say is that my Win98 WordPad does the same thing when
copying
from IE to WordPad. My *guess* is that when you copy from IE to the
Clipboard (which is where Copied stuff gets temporarily stored) it copies
not just the rendered items (text, images, other objects) but rather also
copies the underlying code. When you Paste that stuff into Notepad, the
OLE
procedures rightly only paste rendered text, though just how that works I
can't say. Not my department. But if you paste it into MSWord, it will
take
some time and eventually render it as seen on the website. If I save
that,
and then copy from that Word doc into WordPad, it works.

Fact is, I can't copy the text from this message I'm writing in OE into
WordPad, not even after toggling the RichText/PlainText keys. Because
it's
simply not just the text that gets copied. Verdict: Unless it's due to
having installed Word and/or other Office apps, I would have to conclude
that this is just the way WordPad in Windows 98 is. The solution is to
stop
using word for this purpose and use something else. Meta-Pad or whatever
(to
get around the limitations of Notepad.)

But you lost me on the rest. Once you have the rendered plain text pasted
into WordPad, however you manage it, you then do what? Save it as Plain
text
(TXT) file? In WordPad's Save or SaveAs dialogue, do you choose Plain
text
from the drop-down menu, or just name it brisbet.txt, or what? Also, TXT
files are not normally associated with WordPad, but that seems to be what
you expect. So we're back to the FileType issue -- what, exactly, do you
have in your FileType listing for TXT files?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
I am going to Brisbet.com, I have an account there. On second page
choose
a
track. On next page choose pools. It give you a table of odds for the
horses in the race. If I right click and "select all" then copy, then
paste
in Wordpad document using "text document" everything is pretty well
lined
up,
I may have to insert a few tabs. But, it will not show up in the
Wordpad
document if I use IE. So I use Firefox and It will. But, my problem
then
is
when I later go into Explorer and click on the name of the file I chose
to
save under it won't open. But, it will open if I open Wordpad first and
then
open the file I want.

Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:


"jms" wrote in message
...
First, thank you for your help.

WordPad is installed. I can first open WordPad and then identify
the
file
I
want to open and it will open OK. It's only when I click on the
file
in
Explorer that I have the problem.

Does that apply to *all* TXT files you try to open by
double-clicking?
Also,
you didn't tell me the full path to your WordPad.exe, to verify what
command
should be used in the FileType.

The files I have the problem with are information I have copied
from
the
internet that has a little bit of formatting, tabs, spacing, etc.,
that I
want to retain. I have been doing this so long I don't remember if
I
ever
tried notpad.

The only other thing I know is that if I copy the same information
using
Windows Internet Explorer it will not retain the formating, that is
why I
use
the copy command in Firefox. Maybe this is the problem, however
this
works
OK in windows XP but not the the machine I am currently using which
is
98SE.
Again, thanks.

If they include formatting, then they shouldn't be saved as TXT
files.
they
should probably be saved as RTF or DOC. Tell you the truth, I'm a bit
lost
regarding what you're trying to do. Do you have an example web page I
could
look at? And can you tell me precisely what steps you use, both in IE
and in
FF? When I, for example, highlight stuff in IE and then Ctr-C to copy
and
Ctrl-V to paste into a new WordPad document, all formatting, links,
etc.,
are fairly well maintained, with teh exception of image placeholders
and
tables getting out of whack.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Possibly, you haven't got WordPad installed. It's an optional
item
in
Add/Remove Program, Windows Setup tab, Accessories section
(highlight
Accessories and click on Details.)

Use find to look for WordPad.exe. Does it exist on your machine?
If
so,
what's the pull path to it?

Note that normally, TXT files open with Notepad unless they are
over
64KB,
in which case you are prompted to use WordPad. Do you really want
your
TXT
files associated with WordPad, or do you want things to be the
way
they're
"supposed" to be? Note that editing certain types of plain text
files in
WordPad instead of Notepad, specifically system configuration
files,
scripts, etc., can cause them to not work anymore, since WordPad
will
insert
formatting characters that mess things up if it's not set
correctly.
IOW,
it's much safer to use Notepad for most TXT or other plain text
files.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

OK, by finally adding the "1%" it works, when I tried to add it before it
would not work. Thanks for staying with me and helping with this.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Very simply, the FileType entry is incorrect. That is why we've been asking
you to report *exactly* what is entered into the properties of the filetype
for the extension you're working with. Assuming that it's the TXT extension,
look in FileTypes tab of Folder Options for "Tex Document". Click on Edit,
then click on Open (assuming Open is bolded, which I assume it is.) Click on
Edit again and tell us what is listed there.

Do you see the extensions of files like TXT and EXE, etc., when browsing
files in Windows Explorer?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
I start off opening word pad, click on the open new document, in the
dialogue
box select text document, OK, then just paste what is in clipboard. I then
have most of the formatting unless the horses name is very short in which
case I have to insert some tabs to get that line to line up in columns
with
other lines.
But, we are getting off the subject, I think. I want to click on the
filename in Explorer and open the file. The wordpad program starts, but I
get a dialog box thas says:
C:\My
Cannot find this file.
Please verify that the correct path and file name are given.

Shouldn't the line
C:\My
actually read
C:\My Documents
That is my question.
Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Hey, all I can say is that my Win98 WordPad does the same thing when
copying
from IE to WordPad. My *guess* is that when you copy from IE to the
Clipboard (which is where Copied stuff gets temporarily stored) it
copies
not just the rendered items (text, images, other objects) but rather
also
copies the underlying code. When you Paste that stuff into Notepad, the
OLE
procedures rightly only paste rendered text, though just how that works
I
can't say. Not my department. But if you paste it into MSWord, it will
take
some time and eventually render it as seen on the website. If I save
that,
and then copy from that Word doc into WordPad, it works.

Fact is, I can't copy the text from this message I'm writing in OE into
WordPad, not even after toggling the RichText/PlainText keys. Because
it's
simply not just the text that gets copied. Verdict: Unless it's due to
having installed Word and/or other Office apps, I would have to conclude
that this is just the way WordPad in Windows 98 is. The solution is to
stop
using word for this purpose and use something else. Meta-Pad or whatever
(to
get around the limitations of Notepad.)

But you lost me on the rest. Once you have the rendered plain text
pasted
into WordPad, however you manage it, you then do what? Save it as Plain
text
(TXT) file? In WordPad's Save or SaveAs dialogue, do you choose Plain
text
from the drop-down menu, or just name it brisbet.txt, or what? Also, TXT
files are not normally associated with WordPad, but that seems to be
what
you expect. So we're back to the FileType issue -- what, exactly, do you
have in your FileType listing for TXT files?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
I am going to Brisbet.com, I have an account there. On second page
choose
a
track. On next page choose pools. It give you a table of odds for
the
horses in the race. If I right click and "select all" then copy, then
paste
in Wordpad document using "text document" everything is pretty well
lined
up,
I may have to insert a few tabs. But, it will not show up in the
Wordpad
document if I use IE. So I use Firefox and It will. But, my problem
then
is
when I later go into Explorer and click on the name of the file I
chose to
save under it won't open. But, it will open if I open Wordpad first
and
then
open the file I want.

Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:


"jms" wrote in message
...
First, thank you for your help.

WordPad is installed. I can first open WordPad and then identify
the
file
I
want to open and it will open OK. It's only when I click on the
file
in
Explorer that I have the problem.

Does that apply to *all* TXT files you try to open by
double-clicking?
Also,
you didn't tell me the full path to your WordPad.exe, to verify what
command
should be used in the FileType.

The files I have the problem with are information I have copied
from
the
internet that has a little bit of formatting, tabs, spacing, etc.,
that I
want to retain. I have been doing this so long I don't remember if
I
ever
tried notpad.

The only other thing I know is that if I copy the same information
using
Windows Internet Explorer it will not retain the formating, that
is
why I
use
the copy command in Firefox. Maybe this is the problem, however
this
works
OK in windows XP but not the the machine I am currently using
which is
98SE.
Again, thanks.

If they include formatting, then they shouldn't be saved as TXT
files.
they
should probably be saved as RTF or DOC. Tell you the truth, I'm a
bit
lost
regarding what you're trying to do. Do you have an example web page
I
could
look at? And can you tell me precisely what steps you use, both in
IE
and in
FF? When I, for example, highlight stuff in IE and then Ctr-C to
copy
and
Ctrl-V to paste into a new WordPad document, all formatting, links,
etc.,
are fairly well maintained, with teh exception of image placeholders
and
tables getting out of whack.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Possibly, you haven't got WordPad installed. It's an optional
item
in
Add/Remove Program, Windows Setup tab, Accessories section
(highlight
Accessories and click on Details.)

Use find to look for WordPad.exe. Does it exist on your machine?
If
so,
what's the pull path to it?

Note that normally, TXT files open with Notepad unless they are
over
64KB,
in which case you are prompted to use WordPad. Do you really
want
your
TXT
files associated with WordPad, or do you want things to be the
way
they're
"supposed" to be? Note that editing certain types of plain text
files in
WordPad instead of Notepad, specifically system configuration
files,
scripts, etc., can cause them to not work anymore, since WordPad
will
insert
formatting characters that mess things up if it's not set
correctly.
IOW,
it's much safer to use Notepad for most TXT or other plain text
files.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

Just so you understand, when the command line is not in DOS 8.3 format then
it is often necessary to enclose the command in double-quotes, particularly
if any names in the path include spaces (like "Program Files".) All files
and folders in Windows 9x have DOS 8.3-compliant names even if you don't see
them DOS 8.3 simply means that the name is no longer than 8 characters and
the extension no longer than three characters.) So, you can either do what
Ron suggested and only use the DOS 8.3 names, or you can enclose the command
in double-quotes -- but do not include the switches within the quotes. Thus,
either one of the following commands, exactly as I've written them, would
work.

"c:\program files\accessories\wordpad.exe" %1
or
c:\progra~1\access~1\wordpad.exe %1

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
OK, by finally adding the "1%" it works, when I tried to add it before it
would not work. Thanks for staying with me and helping with this.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Very simply, the FileType entry is incorrect. That is why we've been
asking
you to report *exactly* what is entered into the properties of the
filetype
for the extension you're working with. Assuming that it's the TXT
extension,
look in FileTypes tab of Folder Options for "Tex Document". Click on
Edit,
then click on Open (assuming Open is bolded, which I assume it is.)
Click on
Edit again and tell us what is listed there.

Do you see the extensions of files like TXT and EXE, etc., when browsing
files in Windows Explorer?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
I start off opening word pad, click on the open new document, in the
dialogue
box select text document, OK, then just paste what is in clipboard. I
then
have most of the formatting unless the horses name is very short in
which
case I have to insert some tabs to get that line to line up in columns
with
other lines.
But, we are getting off the subject, I think. I want to click on the
filename in Explorer and open the file. The wordpad program starts,
but I
get a dialog box thas says:
C:\My
Cannot find this file.
Please verify that the correct path and file name are given.

Shouldn't the line
C:\My
actually read
C:\My Documents
That is my question.
Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Hey, all I can say is that my Win98 WordPad does the same thing when
copying
from IE to WordPad. My *guess* is that when you copy from IE to the
Clipboard (which is where Copied stuff gets temporarily stored) it
copies
not just the rendered items (text, images, other objects) but rather
also
copies the underlying code. When you Paste that stuff into Notepad,
the
OLE
procedures rightly only paste rendered text, though just how that
works
I
can't say. Not my department. But if you paste it into MSWord, it
will
take
some time and eventually render it as seen on the website. If I save
that,
and then copy from that Word doc into WordPad, it works.

Fact is, I can't copy the text from this message I'm writing in OE
into
WordPad, not even after toggling the RichText/PlainText keys.
Because
it's
simply not just the text that gets copied. Verdict: Unless it's due
to
having installed Word and/or other Office apps, I would have to
conclude
that this is just the way WordPad in Windows 98 is. The solution is
to
stop
using word for this purpose and use something else. Meta-Pad or
whatever
(to
get around the limitations of Notepad.)

But you lost me on the rest. Once you have the rendered plain text
pasted
into WordPad, however you manage it, you then do what? Save it as
Plain
text
(TXT) file? In WordPad's Save or SaveAs dialogue, do you choose
Plain
text
from the drop-down menu, or just name it brisbet.txt, or what? Also,
TXT
files are not normally associated with WordPad, but that seems to be
what
you expect. So we're back to the FileType issue -- what, exactly, do
you
have in your FileType listing for TXT files?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"jms" wrote in message
...
I am going to Brisbet.com, I have an account there. On second
page
choose
a
track. On next page choose pools. It give you a table of odds
for
the
horses in the race. If I right click and "select all" then copy,
then
paste
in Wordpad document using "text document" everything is pretty
well
lined
up,
I may have to insert a few tabs. But, it will not show up in the
Wordpad
document if I use IE. So I use Firefox and It will. But, my
problem
then
is
when I later go into Explorer and click on the name of the file I
chose to
save under it won't open. But, it will open if I open Wordpad
first
and
then
open the file I want.

Thanks for your help.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:


"jms" wrote in message
...
First, thank you for your help.

WordPad is installed. I can first open WordPad and then
identify
the
file
I
want to open and it will open OK. It's only when I click on
the
file
in
Explorer that I have the problem.

Does that apply to *all* TXT files you try to open by
double-clicking?
Also,
you didn't tell me the full path to your WordPad.exe, to verify
what
command
should be used in the FileType.

The files I have the problem with are information I have
copied
from
the
internet that has a little bit of formatting, tabs, spacing,
etc.,
that I
want to retain. I have been doing this so long I don't
remember if
I
ever
tried notpad.

The only other thing I know is that if I copy the same
information
using
Windows Internet Explorer it will not retain the formating,
that
is
why I
use
the copy command in Firefox. Maybe this is the problem,
however
this
works
OK in windows XP but not the the machine I am currently using
which is
98SE.
Again, thanks.

If they include formatting, then they shouldn't be saved as TXT
files.
they
should probably be saved as RTF or DOC. Tell you the truth, I'm
a
bit
lost
regarding what you're trying to do. Do you have an example web
page
I
could
look at? And can you tell me precisely what steps you use, both
in
IE
and in
FF? When I, for example, highlight stuff in IE and then Ctr-C to
copy
and
Ctrl-V to paste into a new WordPad document, all formatting,
links,
etc.,
are fairly well maintained, with teh exception of image
placeholders
and
tables getting out of whack.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Possibly, you haven't got WordPad installed. It's an
optional
item
in
Add/Remove Program, Windows Setup tab, Accessories section
(highlight
Accessories and click on Details.)

Use find to look for WordPad.exe. Does it exist on your
machine?
If
so,
what's the pull path to it?

Note that normally, TXT files open with Notepad unless they
are
over
64KB,
in which case you are prompted to use WordPad. Do you really
want
your
TXT
files associated with WordPad, or do you want things to be
the
way
they're
"supposed" to be? Note that editing certain types of plain
text
files in
WordPad instead of Notepad, specifically system
configuration
files,
scripts, etc., can cause them to not work anymore, since
WordPad
will
insert
formatting characters that mess things up if it's not set
correctly.
IOW,
it's much safer to use Notepad for most TXT or other plain
text
files.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User