Fareastdriver (your #2307)
I'm very grateful for your advice, but i've only got Notepad and Wordpad so far, and in any case the procedure is so far beyond my capability that I wouldn't know where to start. All my word processing is still done on my good old Canon "Starwriter" (which I can understand!); I've got all my memoirs (whichI call my "Jottings" - about 150,000 words) on Floppy Disks. The "Starwriter" works on a MS-DOS system. So it should be easy to transfer the disks onto Windows, right?. Wrong! It can be done, but only by professional experts. Even so, I'm not going to shell out for Word or Works until I know a lot more than I do now.
I, too, was a "fareastdriver", but long, long ago! But many thanks for your kind interest.
Danny42C