They may already be corrupted, then, by having been saved directly to a
floppy, or by previous attempts at opening. You may be able to extract the
text contents by using the "Recover Text from Any File" setting in the Open
dialog. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Emrys Davies" wrote in message
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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You should never save a Word document directly to a floppy or open one
directly from a floppy. Instead, copy the file to your hard drive and
open
it from there.
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Emrys Davies" wrote in message
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I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6 and Word 2000
My wife has saved a document in Word on a floppy disk using the
'Save
As' heading as 'Jerusalem' and Files of Type as Word Document. It
was
saved in Times New Roman -Normal.
Everything was fine until today when the document would not open.
The Open page displays Doc.1
Jerusalem
and the Files of type shows: Word Documents.
When I try to open 'Jerusalem' I get the reminder ' Do you want to
revert to the saved 'Jerusalem', yes or no, but whatever I choose it
does not open.
The .doc file and 'Jerusalem' shows in Windows Explorer and on 'My
Computer', where 245,760 bytes is indicated.
One thing I notice and which is very unusual to me: None of the
'Files
of type' have any extensions on them.
I have tested on a blank disk and everything works fine.
Can you help please?
Regards,
Emrys Davies.
I copied the two files to my dard drive, but they will not open from
there.