basically i have a word document file which is on my XP, but i have a laptop windows 7, it doesnt read the XP word document properly, comes up with all sorts of symbols,
Does your Laptop have Microsoft Office / Microsoft Word installed? If so, it should, but there may be a version incompatibility.
Office 2007 / 2010 should be able to open any previous M$ Office app, with the caveat that it may open older versions originally in read only mode, and you'll need to enable editing in order to edit it.
Office 2003 and lower cannotnatively open documents created in Office 2007 / Office 2010 and saved with native specs (IOW, docs created and saved in Office 2007 / 2010 formats).
Wordpad cannot open Microsoft Office 2007 / 2010 documents natively, AFAICT.
So, you need to ascertain which version of Office you have on the XP machine and which (if any) version you have on the Laptop and go from there.
Assuming that you do not have Microsoft Office on the laptop, or that it is an older version from the one on your desktop:
One option is to use the Office Web Apps - Office - Office.com - to open the document. This requires an active Internet connection.
Another is to use your Google account and use Google Docs - https://docs.google.com/ - and view, edit, and print your doc from there. This requires an active Internet connection.
A third option is to download and install Microsoft Downloads - Word Viewer - the Microsoft Word viewer - which will act as if you have Word on your computer but only for reading and printing.
thing is the file I'm talking about is a c.v, I used to have my brother p.c in my room, but he's taking it, as he moved out, new laptop is only machine I have in my house
Windows Easy Transfer - Windows 7 features - Microsoft Windows
you needed to install the Windows 7 compatible program on your older PC running XP and not use the XP files and settings transfer software. That was for moving files and seting TO XP from a similar or older OS.
A simple google search, before you jump, of tranfer files and setting from XP to Windows 7 would of brought up a slew of hits on how to do it.
So it seems you will need to get that old PC working again to some degree to be able took either replace your files on it or get them off it into Win 7.
Thanks a lot.
Derren Brown
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Read the post - the issue is not in getting the document to the computer, but in opening it with a program that can actually read it.
Trust me - if it was a matter of just getting the file copied from one to another this would have been answered a long time ago - I've only been doing tech support for 20 years, and many other posters in here have been at it for longer than I have....
But, it's hard to give good advice when you don't really know what is being asked....
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I've had tickets (calls, whatever) come through to me... "cant read emails"
When i call them, they can't read emails because they cant log on to their computer
Yeh, it's called PIBKAC or PICNIC.
For anyone who's not already seen it, I recommend a hilarious sitcom called the "The IT Crowd".
That kind of thing though reminds me of when I used to work for a place that did warranty repairs on small electronic products, things like radio cassettes, clock radios, cordless phones, etc. On the repair dockets was a box, which had "Please write a detailed description of the problem, including all symptoms.", so often the SA(moron) who was dealing with the customer's warranty repair just wrote one word, "Broken" or "Faulty". So if the fault was intermittent or only happened in certain situations, we wouldn't know about it, and the product would appear to work perfectly when tested.
They got it with LibreOffice or OpenOffice. Nothing to it. Just liek the older version of Office.... You don't even like the new "ribbon" interface anyway do ya?
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Yeh, it's called PIBKAC or PICNIC.
What's PICNIC? I've heard PIBKAC before, but not PICNIC. people in chair need....? Am I close?
file transfer from windows xp - windows 7?
.Same thing 
