Are you trying to open them from a floppy or other removable disk?

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"stuart" wrote in message
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hi

i have recently upgraded to office 2003, and use word frequently.

i have noticed though that a number of my old word documents created and
saved in word 2000 will not open in word 2003, giving the error box:


"word experience an arror trying to open the file try these uggestions
1. Check the file permissions for rht doc or drive
2. make sure sufficient memory
3. open the file with text recovery converter"

what makes this weird is that, i can still open the files in word 2000
(tried it on a friends pc), but im unable to open them in 2003

any thoughts?

thanks
stuart