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using office xp documents in windows vista
I recently replaced my old laptop which ran Windows XP with a new one that
has Windows Vista. I installed my 2002 Office XP Professional program and everything seemed to work fine. Suddenly every document I had saved opens in an encrypted form only even though they have all been opening normally previously. Two new documents that I just created a couple of days ago still open as I created them. The first time the documents opened encrypted an error message told me to reinstall the import decoder by reloading the original Office disk, which I did and it said it installed successfully however it did not fix the problem. Is the software just not going to be compatible with Windows Vista forcing me to either upgrade or replace the program or is there a way to fix the older version so that it will work in Windows Vista? |
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using office xp documents in windows vista
Office XP should work fine with Vista. What you're describing sounds more
like a virus. There are viruses that overwrite Word files, resulting in Word no longer recognizing them as Word files. Once overwritten, there is NO recovery of those files--I hope you have backup copies. The best you can hope for is to stop the virus before it corrupts additional files. Do you have antivirus software and is it up to date? Word will not encrypt files without jumping through some hoops... it's very difficult for it to happen by accident. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "kazylady2" wrote in message ... I recently replaced my old laptop which ran Windows XP with a new one that has Windows Vista. I installed my 2002 Office XP Professional program and everything seemed to work fine. Suddenly every document I had saved opens in an encrypted form only even though they have all been opening normally previously. Two new documents that I just created a couple of days ago still open as I created them. The first time the documents opened encrypted an error message told me to reinstall the import decoder by reloading the original Office disk, which I did and it said it installed successfully however it did not fix the problem. Is the software just not going to be compatible with Windows Vista forcing me to either upgrade or replace the program or is there a way to fix the older version so that it will work in Windows Vista? |
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