Opening the message files

[Neil Ward]

I'm being stoooopid, I think.

I want to view the two files that have been completed, but all seem
to 
I get is gobbledegook - either one line of it, or pages of it, but no 
words.  I've tried opening the files from here, and I've tried saving 
them to disk and opening them from there.  I've tried Word 95 v, 7.0, 
Wordpad and Notepad.  I've also tried txt, rich text and doc formats.

Um - anyone know what's wrong?  I'm sure I'm overlooking the 
obvious...

Neil