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scrambled documents
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. . . |
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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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "blacksmith" wrote in message ... 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. . . |
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Thank you very much, I'll try that!
"Charles Kenyon" wrote: 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "blacksmith" wrote in message ... 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. . . |
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