sending word pad documents as an attached file

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I recently lost my harddrive and had to reformat and I lost microsoft word. I had my resume saved on my email so I downloaded it and now it appears as a wordpad document.

If I email wordpad documents will it open as a word document or a wordpad document? In general if you send a wordpad document will it be opened with word on a computer that has that program installed?