[Notverygood]

But, being a complete dumbo re all things technical, I thought I would try here and I don't mind being redirected

I saved a html document on my desktop. For reasons unknown, I saved it to wordpad. Once it was in wordpad it was undechiperable. Is there any way that I can get this document back into a html format?

[Notverygood]

Me again. I meant to say, I changed it so that it would open in wordpad. Crikey, I'm not doing very well.

[Jacee]

Hopefully someone else knows because I can only get you here:
http://www.tutorials-win.com/archive...rdDoc-125.html

[unbidden]

If you saved the page as an html file but later associated it to open in Word Pad - right click the file - choose "open with" select Internet Explorer or program of choice. There will be an option to always open the file with the chosen program.

If you saved it as a .txt file, I think you're out of luck.

[Notverygood]

Originally Posted by Jacee

Hopefully someone else knows because I can only get you here:
http://www.tutorials-win.com/archive...rdDoc-125.html

Thank you. I think I might have to write my latest little disaster off. Never mind, the document wasn't that important ...... only 365 pages (arghhh).

[Notverygood]

Originally Posted by unbidden

If you saved the page as an html file but later associated it to open in Word Pad - right click the file - choose "open with" select Internet Explorer or program of choice. There will be an option to always open the file with the chosen program.

If you saved it as a .txt file, I think you're out of luck.

I think that's what I must have done. I've stopped kicking myself about it now.

Btw, whilst I'm here I have another little problem.

My laptop came with StarOffice. I recently downloaded a free trial of Office 2007 and when I looked in 'My Documents' every single Staroffice document had vanished and when I searched for them I could only find shortcuts to them in the application data/roaming folder. Luckily, I had all of my documents backed up, but do you have any ideas where they went and why?

[unbidden]

Did you lose them or are the documents simply changed to Word icons; meaning they are file associated with Word now?

Don't forget System Restore.

[Notverygood]

Originally Posted by unbidden

Did you lose them or are the documents simply changed to Word icons; meaning they are file associated with Word now?

Don't forget System Restore.

They were lost. I had saved them to disc (thankfully) and had also stored them to my data. They were all gone. I wondered whether it was a microsoft office 2007/staroffice conflict. But then that thought went over my head.

I tried System Restore but had no luck. I'm on Vista Basic. Says it all really. Thanks for trying to help though.