In your file open dialog, look at the file type. Make sure it is set to
"Word Document" rather than "recover text from any file" or something like
that.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"blacksmith" wrote in message
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An upgrade to Office 2003 was done to my computer. Now all my previous
Word,
Office 2000, Excel, and WordPerfect documents are scrambled--full of code
interspersed with the text I need. Why? I can open them individually with
Notepad and copy the info needed but that's going to take years!! Help!!
What can be done?

Thank you. . .