I have "A" disks with information on them typed in Microsoft Word in the mid-90's. I believe they were saved in notepad, but when I open them, it looks like "foreign language". There doesn't seem to be any indication they are document or text files.
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I assume by "A" disks you mean 3.5 inch floppies? That's irrelevant, but I'm clarifying. Anyway, what format are they saved in. As in [filename"].[extension], what's the [extension]? .rtf? .txt? .html?
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It doesn't appear to have any extensions (?) if that's the correct terminology. The file just appears with a name and no details.
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Depending on when, it is possible that modern versions of Word would never recognize them anyways. But you failed to tell us what the extension is, if any, so I can't really help you much. I can tell you that I have had to edit many a document by using the ind/Replace function to delete formatting marks while leaving the original text intact, mostly when transferring between DOS and Mac System 7. BTW - You ARE talking about floppies here, right? Sometimes I feel like one of the few people here who remembers what life was like before CPUs broke 1GHz, back when RAM was measured not in GB or MB, but in KB.
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You need to know for certain what program created the files and the way to do this is to check the filename extension - the bit after the dot. In order to see the extension you might have to go to Folder Options and clear the check mark next to where it says 'Hide filename extensions for known file types'. It is a bit confusing when you say that they were typed in Word and saved in Notepad. If they had been saved in Notepad they would be plain text files and any text editor or word processor would be able to read them, so it would appear that they weren't saved in Notepad. If Word can't read them they weren't saved in Word either As I say, the filename extension is vital to working out what program to use to open these files. If they are from the mid 90s there is a great chance that they are actually WordPerfect or AmiPro files.
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