So I've been combing through some old hard drives and found some ancient fanfic-related stuff. Some of which may be salvageable, most was along the lines of "WTF was I on when I wrote this?!" and deleted (I have a box full of similar paper someone gave me that's under the bed--the stuff's at least 20 years old and I'm almost afraid to look through it)
All the files were created with Corel Wordperfect (.wpd), and while OpenOffice 4 was unable to open them I downgraded to 3.1 and am saving them as .doc files, then I'll 'upgrade' OO again when this is all done. Was going fine until I came across one file.
When I try to open this one, I get an ASCII Filter dialog box; any 'seems obvious' selection results in a 672-page document with 2-5 lines of complete gibberish per page and no actual words that I can detect. Properties are nothing useful; the file was created in 2002, but I've been able to open older documents with no problem.
Any ideas? I've tried renaming it to .doc, opening it with Wordpad (result was even worse)...nothing. This thing isn't critical to anything, I'm just curious what's in it (and fiddling with it would be good practice). Google-fu has failed me for some reason.
All the files were created with Corel Wordperfect (.wpd), and while OpenOffice 4 was unable to open them I downgraded to 3.1 and am saving them as .doc files, then I'll 'upgrade' OO again when this is all done. Was going fine until I came across one file.
When I try to open this one, I get an ASCII Filter dialog box; any 'seems obvious' selection results in a 672-page document with 2-5 lines of complete gibberish per page and no actual words that I can detect. Properties are nothing useful; the file was created in 2002, but I've been able to open older documents with no problem.
Any ideas? I've tried renaming it to .doc, opening it with Wordpad (result was even worse)...nothing. This thing isn't critical to anything, I'm just curious what's in it (and fiddling with it would be good practice). Google-fu has failed me for some reason.
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