trying to read a document, stuck...help!

911paramedic

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I have a wps doc that has a bunch of those boxes in it. I cannot get rid of them because I cannot find my CD to install the cypher program. Any good ways to do this??

Thanks
 

911paramedic

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I have MS Word, but it wont read it unless I grab the CD, and I have hundreds and am not in the mood to look for it. Can I read it in another program??
 

Wallydraigle

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He's talking about an optional plugin you need to install from the CD to read Works files.


I think you're just going to have to find a Word CD somewhere to do it.
 

Evadman

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those boxes are characters that the program can not interpret. You could just go and download every font you can find :)
 

911paramedic

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Ohhhhh, I just tried to copy and paste the letter here for you to see the squares, but now they are gone, I am just going to post the whole damn thing here since this forum does not recognize the boxes....woot!
 

911paramedic

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Originally posted by: dahunan
Send it to someone and have them convert it to Word and then send it back.

It is pretty personal, or else I would consider that. Thanks.

 

BennyD

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what about open office, i hear that can open/read word files but im not sure about works =/
 

911paramedic

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Thanks for the help, but I really don't want to go through the hundreds of CDs I have looking for the office CD. I may tomorrow.

Thanks though.