Thanks Graham. Your help over the years is much appreciated. But they
won't open after dragging to desktop. I did check PropertiesSecurity tab
and there is no "read only" limitation either checked in the box or in
checking each user profile. All permissions are granted for each user
profile.
I enclose a small .jpeg.
CH
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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If you copy the files from your disc to the hard drive and remove the read
only flag from their properties, will they now open?
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Chad Harris wrote:
Before I had Office 2007, I was using Vista (actually since it's Beta
began, and I backed up what I think were my Word 2003 documents to
DVD. I'm not sure if I can determine what version of Word was used
but they should have been Word 2003 before any Betas of 2007 were
available.
I'm using Vista SP1 and Office 2007 SP1 on this box currently and
both have every available update to date.
Now when I go to open up, the backed up docs they show up in
gibberish. I searched the MSKBs, Word Help on the MSFT sites, etc.
and I downloaded the latest version of the MSFT Office Word Viewer. It
doesn't help.
I downloaded the "Compatibility Pack" and it did nothing. That'd be
this guy:
For more information about the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack,
and to download the Compatibility Pack, visit the following Microsoft
Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...3-c6bb74cd1466
I don't believe the documents are corrupted at all. I think there is
something that has to do with XML or the word formatting mismatch
that MSFT has engineered between Word 2003 and Word 2007.
I would appreciate any help at all.
I don't think this is my problem: discussed in this MSKB
How to use earlier versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word to open
and save files from 2007 Office programs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074
because I have the latest version of Word.
I'm not getting any particular error message and when I saved the
docs, whether I used Word 2003 or Word 2007 I had all the latest
updates.
Thanks much,
CH