Microsoft Office files

[sunnyd47]

I managed to get Microsoft Greetings installed on my last vista home premium and therefore have many, many files saved to an external HD for updating to my new Windows 7 system. As Microsoft Greetings is not compatible with Win 7, what other programmes are there that will open the .php files generated by the Microsoft Greetings programme?

Any help appreciated.

 

[ccatlett1984]

Can you attach one, so i can try a few apps.

 

[sunnyd47]

Hi, Thanks for the response.

Tried to attach a file but it would not do it, any workarounds?

 

[mitchell65]

.php is not supported by the attach files feature of this Forum. See below. Apparantly you should not have been able to install the Greeting prog into Vista. See this:
http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/mi...oft-greetings-php-files-opening-problems.html
I think you have a real problem here but if you could upload one of your files to a public server like this http://uploading.com/
And post the resultant URL we might be able to think of something to help. I have one or two ideas that might work but need a file first.

 

[ccatlett1984]

Eh, just rename the file extension to .txt, we will rename it after we download it.

 

[sunnyd47]

Thanks all.

I have managed to open them with "microsoft digital image starter edition 2006" but this is only a trial (plus it is now extinct to upgrade), also, "microsoft picture it" would apparently open them (again, that is now defunct).
I wonder what other programes from microsoft are/will be capable of handling them?

Unless anyone knows of a greetings card software that is freely available for windows 7?

 

[whs]

Try Notepad++. That should be able to open them.

 

[sunnyd47]

That didnt work either, simply showed a garbled display and a "notepad++ plugin manager" note stating that = "There are still some pending actions to complete installing or removing some plugins. Would you like to do these now (Notepad ++ will be restarted)"

 

[mitchell65]

How about just changing the extension to txt as suggested above. then try uploading. One of us may just find the answer

 

[sunnyd47]

I have it sorted now, I simply bought Serif Websplus online and it does what I want from a programme, moreso than microsofts I had originally. I can still access my saved stuff via "microsoft digital image starter edition 2006". Serif is better and why pay microsoft anything further for a compatible program

 

[Dwarf]

If you want to attach a file with an extension that isn't supported on the Forums, such as .php, you will need to zip it first and then attach it.

 

[CarlTR6]

Glad you found the solution.