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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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Default How to find an Office 2000 Word file that says,"This file can't b

One good guess is that it is at the bottom of the File menu and can't be
found because the listing represents a temporary file created when a
document was opened from an attachment.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
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Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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*How* are you trying to find the file? How are you opening it if you can't
find it?

Reading between the lines, it seems to be a registration issue - First see
how to re-register Word when problems crop up opening files
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm and if that
doesn't fix it select a document in Windows Explorer, right click and
choose Open with...

From the ensuing dialog select Word (winword.exe) and check the box to
always open with this application.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Chip-Monk wrote:
How can I find an Office 2000 Word file if when I try to open the
file it has a Message saying, "This file could not be found. Try one
or more of the following: *Check the spelling of the name of the
Document. *Try a different file name," but after trying these
suggestions I still don't find the file.