Hi Mary,

In Word if you turn on [x] Confirm conversions at open
and use File=Open to open the file what File type does
Word think it is?

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"Mw 40love" Mw wrote in message ...
Someone in the office saved a large doc to disk and now it will only open
showing what looks like code - only all squares. Will not open in any other
program, adobe, corel, etc, even if I change the file ext.

I'm baffled on this one.
Thanks,
Mary
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