-----Original Message-----
We have thousands of documents which were developed in
previous versions of
Word. When we try to open these in Word 2003 we get the
following error:

Word was unable to read this document. It may be corrupt.
Try one or more of
the following:
* Open and Repair the file.
* Etc...

When I use Open and Repair I get a dialog box which says
Errors were
detected in the file, etc.. and lists one error as 'Text
Boxes 1' (whatever
that means).

One way or another, I need to get this fixed up so that
our users can access
their documents.

1. Is there a software patch for this? I am currently
running Word 2003
(11.5604.5606)

2. Is there a way that I can fix up all my documents
programmatically? Is
the Open and Repair function available via the Word
automation object model?

Thanks for your help!

- Joe Geretz -



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I am able to open documents prepared with Word 97. You
should be able to open all that have the .doc file extension.