Hello all,I recently bought a dell computer 64 bit and it came with no "works" nor "word". 99% of my text documents come in the form of computer goobly glop instead of words that can be read. I d/l the acrobat reader thinking that would change the wording but it didn't. Can someone the help with this problem or contact me if you need any other info. This is very annoying and microsoft can't help so they say. Thank you, Mike.

If you have any of the MS Operating Systems (XP, Vista or Win 7) they should come with the default Notepad and Wordpad - either of which can open, read and edit any standard text file.Are you saying you neither of these?

Hello all,I recently bought a dell computer 64 bit and it came with no "works" nor "word". 99% of my text documents come in the form of computer goobly glop instead of words that can be read. I d/l the acrobat reader thinking that would change the wording but it didn't. Can someone the help with this problem or contact me if you need any other info. This is very annoying and microsoft can't help so they say. Thank you, Mike.

Hi,At Microsoft site you can download a Word viewer, so you can check if your files are valid documents anyway.

Try this:http://www.openoffice.org/Its a good free alternative to MS Office.It should work fine with MS Word files versions 2003 and lower. I'm not sure if it can read MS Office 2007 files though. Still its worth a try.EDIT:Also not sure why you asked about this in the 'The FS9 Forum'. This type of thread would be better suited in the 'Hangar Chat' forum.