[z3n]

Yes, not I got it.
You saved all your image code and link code in a document, and whenever you needed them you opened up the document and copied the code, then pasted it into your FR posts.

As others have said, you may be able to get around this by changing your file associations.

If you made those files in plain text then you can open them with Word Pad.

If you originally made those documents in MS Word, then you’ll either have to pay for the Microsoft office Apps, or try to find a free alternative.
Someone here mentioned libre office as an alternative. It comes packaged with many Linux OS’s and I personally hate Libre office. I avoid using MS office in my personal life but I’ve had to use it quite a bit professionally.

If you want to find out if your old docs open up in wordpad, try right-clicking the document and choose “Open With”, then select “Choose another App”, and then selected Word Pad. If it works, then you can get away with associating that file with wordpad. To do that, you would right click the file and choose “Properties”. In the General tab, about 1/3 of the way down, you can click the button “Change” and choose wordpad. Be aware that once you do this, every document with that same extension will try to open with WordPad and some may fail if their formatting was meant for MS Word

[deoetdoctrinae]

By golly I think you have found a fix. I'm still trying to work up the nerve to try it, but here is what I found. First of all, the ones that are giving me trouble all say that they are in "rich text format". Right-clicking on what's called New Rich Text Document (which contains all my individual FReepathon files) brings up a screen that includes "Open With".

When I click on that, it brings up three choices. Word, Search the Microsoft Store, or choose another app. Clicking on "choose another app" asks if I want to keep using this app (Word is highlighted), or look for more apps. Oh yeah, before I click on "choose another app", I do see a box on the screen that can be checked, which says "Always use this app to open rtf files. I assume once I choose WordPad, I will want to check that box.

Anyway, when I clicked on "more apps", Notepad, Windows Media Player, and WordPad were the first three choices that come up.

Does all of this sound like what you described as what I would hope to expect. If so, I may go ahead and take a deep breath, click on WordPad, and try this out. At this point I guess I don't have a lot to lose.