Open WRI files in your browser
The document of Write, the word processor in Windows 1.0 to 3.11. Open one right here, now that Windows no longer does. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your document opens as its pages, with its fonts, pictures and tables.
- Every page • Headers, footers, notes and charts
- Final, Markup or Original • Comments and changes
- Reflow • The text fitted to your screen
- Export • Save as PDF, PNG, JPEG or Markdown
About WRI
Write came with Windows from its first version in 1985 to Windows 3.11, and its .wri files were how a generation of Windows users wrote letters and notes. Windows 95 replaced Write with WordPad, which could still open them until Windows 7 dropped the format, and WordPad itself is now gone from Windows 11.
A WRI is close to Word for DOS's format: the text, then the fonts, paragraphs and page setup in tables after it, with pictures and OLE objects between the paragraphs. Many old help files, readme files and letters on Windows 3.1 disks are WRI files.
Filepeek reads the document with libwps, the open source reader LibreOffice uses, compiled to WebAssembly, and lays out every page with its fonts, indents, tabs, headers, footers and pictures. Reflow fits the text to your screen, search counts every match, and Export saves it as a PDF, its pages as pictures or its text as Markdown.
Windows Write document
.wri
Format
- MIME type
- application/x-mswrite
- Made by
- Microsoft
- Released
- 1985
Inside the file
- Text
- With its fonts and paragraphs
- Pictures
- And OLE objects between paragraphs
- Pages
- Size, margins, headers and footers
- Built like
- Word for DOS's documents
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens WRI files in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Windows no longer opens them, and browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open WRI
- WindowsLibreOffice Writer opens it • WordPad stopped in Windows 7
- MacLibreOffice Writer opens it
- iPhone and iPadNo app built in opens it
- AndroidNo app built in opens it
Questions
Why won't Windows open my WRI file?
WordPad stopped reading Write files in Windows 7, and Windows 11 no longer has WordPad. Drop the file here instead and it opens as its pages.
Can I turn a WRI file into a PDF or a Word file?
Choose Export, then Save as PDF. For a file to edit, LibreOffice Writer opens WRI files and saves them as DOCX.
Do its pictures show?
Yes. Pictures and drawings saved in the document show between its paragraphs where Write placed them.