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Word 2003 suddenly can't open certain ".Doc" documents
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After Googling my question and finding no answer, I came here with my problem. In the last few days I noticed that some of my Documents are not opening properly. All of my docs have the ".Doc" extension but some of them are opening as Plain Text and they're blank!! I first noticed that something was amiss when I opened a document yesterday and Word asked permission to install a converter. I hurriedly said yes and the document opened ok. I just figured that there had been a patch applied by Windows Update. Today when I went to open several other docs I found that some were ok while others were blank and seemed to have many additional pages! On my PC Word is part of MS Office 2003. I'm running Vista Home with all of the latest updates. Oddly I even get Windows updates for MS Office 2007 and I do not have it installed. Any ideas? Thanks Bill |
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Word 2003 suddenly can't open certain ".Doc" documents
Are these documents you created?
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Bill D" wrote in message ... Hi: After Googling my question and finding no answer, I came here with my problem. In the last few days I noticed that some of my Documents are not opening properly. All of my docs have the ".Doc" extension but some of them are opening as Plain Text and they're blank!! I first noticed that something was amiss when I opened a document yesterday and Word asked permission to install a converter. I hurriedly said yes and the document opened ok. I just figured that there had been a patch applied by Windows Update. Today when I went to open several other docs I found that some were ok while others were blank and seemed to have many additional pages! On my PC Word is part of MS Office 2003. I'm running Vista Home with all of the latest updates. Oddly I even get Windows updates for MS Office 2007 and I do not have it installed. Any ideas? Thanks Bill |
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Word 2003 suddenly can't open certain ".Doc" documents
When you open a document, check the bottom most "File Type" box. Does it say
Recover any text from file or something other than Word document? If so, set this back to All Word documents or Word document. "Bill D" wrote: Hi: After Googling my question and finding no answer, I came here with my problem. In the last few days I noticed that some of my Documents are not opening properly. All of my docs have the ".Doc" extension but some of them are opening as Plain Text and they're blank!! I first noticed that something was amiss when I opened a document yesterday and Word asked permission to install a converter. I hurriedly said yes and the document opened ok. I just figured that there had been a patch applied by Windows Update. Today when I went to open several other docs I found that some were ok while others were blank and seemed to have many additional pages! On my PC Word is part of MS Office 2003. I'm running Vista Home with all of the latest updates. Oddly I even get Windows updates for MS Office 2007 and I do not have it installed. Any ideas? Thanks Bill |
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Word 2003 suddenly can't open certain ".Doc" documents
I don't think that I Replied to the Group earlier. Sorry if this is a
duplicate. Hi: Yes these are created by me. Upon further investigation, it appears that all of the documents created with Office 97 are "corrupted". The more recent documents - created with Office 2003 seem to be ok. However, there are some documents that I cannot draw conclusions about because they've migrated back and forth between machines with different versions of Office. Thanks Bill "finalword" wrote in message news When you open a document, check the bottom most "File Type" box. Does it say Recover any text from file or something other than Word document? If so, set this back to All Word documents or Word document. "Bill D" wrote: Hi: After Googling my question and finding no answer, I came here with my problem. In the last few days I noticed that some of my Documents are not opening properly. All of my docs have the ".Doc" extension but some of them are opening as Plain Text and they're blank!! I first noticed that something was amiss when I opened a document yesterday and Word asked permission to install a converter. I hurriedly said yes and the document opened ok. I just figured that there had been a patch applied by Windows Update. Today when I went to open several other docs I found that some were ok while others were blank and seemed to have many additional pages! On my PC Word is part of MS Office 2003. I'm running Vista Home with all of the latest updates. Oddly I even get Windows updates for MS Office 2007 and I do not have it installed. Any ideas? Thanks Bill |
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Word 2003 suddenly can't open certain ".Doc" documents
For the documents still giving you trouble, see if the following steps help:
--Open the Document --Go to Tools | Options | Save Tab --Make sure that Disable Features Introduced After is NOT CHECKED --Go to the Compatibility Options Tab --Change the Compatibility to Word 2003 --File | Save As | Make sure that the File of Type is set to Word Document "Bill D" wrote: I don't think that I Replied to the Group earlier. Sorry if this is a duplicate. Hi: Yes these are created by me. Upon further investigation, it appears that all of the documents created with Office 97 are "corrupted". The more recent documents - created with Office 2003 seem to be ok. However, there are some documents that I cannot draw conclusions about because they've migrated back and forth between machines with different versions of Office. Thanks Bill "finalword" wrote in message news When you open a document, check the bottom most "File Type" box. Does it say Recover any text from file or something other than Word document? If so, set this back to All Word documents or Word document. "Bill D" wrote: Hi: After Googling my question and finding no answer, I came here with my problem. In the last few days I noticed that some of my Documents are not opening properly. All of my docs have the ".Doc" extension but some of them are opening as Plain Text and they're blank!! I first noticed that something was amiss when I opened a document yesterday and Word asked permission to install a converter. I hurriedly said yes and the document opened ok. I just figured that there had been a patch applied by Windows Update. Today when I went to open several other docs I found that some were ok while others were blank and seemed to have many additional pages! On my PC Word is part of MS Office 2003. I'm running Vista Home with all of the latest updates. Oddly I even get Windows updates for MS Office 2007 and I do not have it installed. Any ideas? Thanks Bill |
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Word 2003 suddenly can't open certain ".Doc" documents
And if it's possible that the documents were originally created in a version
older than Word 97, see "Information about certain file types that are blocked after you install Office 2003 Service Pack 3" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938810. If this is the answer, note that Method 1 is what you want. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "finalword" wrote in message ... For the documents still giving you trouble, see if the following steps help: --Open the Document --Go to Tools | Options | Save Tab --Make sure that Disable Features Introduced After is NOT CHECKED --Go to the Compatibility Options Tab --Change the Compatibility to Word 2003 --File | Save As | Make sure that the File of Type is set to Word Document "Bill D" wrote: I don't think that I Replied to the Group earlier. Sorry if this is a duplicate. Hi: Yes these are created by me. Upon further investigation, it appears that all of the documents created with Office 97 are "corrupted". The more recent documents - created with Office 2003 seem to be ok. However, there are some documents that I cannot draw conclusions about because they've migrated back and forth between machines with different versions of Office. Thanks Bill "finalword" wrote in message news When you open a document, check the bottom most "File Type" box. Does it say Recover any text from file or something other than Word document? If so, set this back to All Word documents or Word document. "Bill D" wrote: Hi: After Googling my question and finding no answer, I came here with my problem. In the last few days I noticed that some of my Documents are not opening properly. All of my docs have the ".Doc" extension but some of them are opening as Plain Text and they're blank!! I first noticed that something was amiss when I opened a document yesterday and Word asked permission to install a converter. I hurriedly said yes and the document opened ok. I just figured that there had been a patch applied by Windows Update. Today when I went to open several other docs I found that some were ok while others were blank and seemed to have many additional pages! On my PC Word is part of MS Office 2003. I'm running Vista Home with all of the latest updates. Oddly I even get Windows updates for MS Office 2007 and I do not have it installed. Any ideas? Thanks Bill |
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Word 2003 suddenly can't open certain ".Doc" documents
Hi guys. Thanks for your help.
I made all of the suggested changes and still no fix. I uninstalled and resinstalled MS Office 2003 and subsequently applied all of the updates including SP3. At each step I tried to open the older files but was unsucessful. In an effort to recreate the problem, I created a document a document using Office 97 on XP and transferred to a Vista machine with Office 2003 installed. As luck would have it, I was able to read the document without a problem! Since I can recover the documents from a backup, I guess I'll chalk this whole episode up to gremlins. My thanks to you all for your assistance. Bill "Bill D" wrote in message ... I don't think that I Replied to the Group earlier. Sorry if this is a duplicate. Hi: Yes these are created by me. Upon further investigation, it appears that all of the documents created with Office 97 are "corrupted". The more recent documents - created with Office 2003 seem to be ok. However, there are some documents that I cannot draw conclusions about because they've migrated back and forth between machines with different versions of Office. Thanks Bill "finalword" wrote in message news When you open a document, check the bottom most "File Type" box. Does it say Recover any text from file or something other than Word document? If so, set this back to All Word documents or Word document. "Bill D" wrote: Hi: After Googling my question and finding no answer, I came here with my problem. In the last few days I noticed that some of my Documents are not opening properly. All of my docs have the ".Doc" extension but some of them are opening as Plain Text and they're blank!! I first noticed that something was amiss when I opened a document yesterday and Word asked permission to install a converter. I hurriedly said yes and the document opened ok. I just figured that there had been a patch applied by Windows Update. Today when I went to open several other docs I found that some were ok while others were blank and seemed to have many additional pages! On my PC Word is part of MS Office 2003. I'm running Vista Home with all of the latest updates. Oddly I even get Windows updates for MS Office 2007 and I do not have it installed. Any ideas? Thanks Bill |
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Word 2003 suddenly can't open certain ".Doc" documents, Solved !!
For those of you may happen upon this thread, here's the resolution.
Above half of the files in my Word Documents directory were corrupted. It turned out that these documents never were really on my current drive to begin with. My old disk drive was dying so I had salvaged a number of files using Windows Explorer, moving the files from the old drive to the new one. I pulled them across at the Folder level expecting that all of the files in the folder would be transferred. They were not as I found out for certain directories. The data name was transferred but the underlying file was not. Further, I had apparantly not opened these docs in over a year so it did not "suddenly" happen. The solution for me was to reinstall the old drive again (as a second drive) and pull the documents across but this time at the file level. It worked. The corruption of my two year old disk drive was root cause of the problem - not MS Word. Hope you find this helpful if you're in a similar predicament. Bill "finalword" wrote in message ... For the documents still giving you trouble, see if the following steps help: --Open the Document --Go to Tools | Options | Save Tab --Make sure that Disable Features Introduced After is NOT CHECKED --Go to the Compatibility Options Tab --Change the Compatibility to Word 2003 --File | Save As | Make sure that the File of Type is set to Word Document "Bill D" wrote: I don't think that I Replied to the Group earlier. Sorry if this is a duplicate. Hi: Yes these are created by me. Upon further investigation, it appears that all of the documents created with Office 97 are "corrupted". The more recent documents - created with Office 2003 seem to be ok. However, there are some documents that I cannot draw conclusions about because they've migrated back and forth between machines with different versions of Office. Thanks Bill "finalword" wrote in message news When you open a document, check the bottom most "File Type" box. Does it say Recover any text from file or something other than Word document? If so, set this back to All Word documents or Word document. "Bill D" wrote: Hi: After Googling my question and finding no answer, I came here with my problem. In the last few days I noticed that some of my Documents are not opening properly. All of my docs have the ".Doc" extension but some of them are opening as Plain Text and they're blank!! I first noticed that something was amiss when I opened a document yesterday and Word asked permission to install a converter. I hurriedly said yes and the document opened ok. I just figured that there had been a patch applied by Windows Update. Today when I went to open several other docs I found that some were ok while others were blank and seemed to have many additional pages! On my PC Word is part of MS Office 2003. I'm running Vista Home with all of the latest updates. Oddly I even get Windows updates for MS Office 2007 and I do not have it installed. Any ideas? Thanks Bill |
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Word 2003 suddenly can't open certain ".Doc" documents
We recently had a similar situation. We couldn't open Word 2.0 documents ( I
know. They are really old! They came from a client though.). I found this article helpful: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922849 Basically, one of the security patches turned off some of Office's backward compatibility. You can get it back by modifying the registry like this: http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/arch...entPosted=true Notice that there is a section for Office 2007 and one for Office 2003. "Bill D" wrote: Hi guys. Thanks for your help. I made all of the suggested changes and still no fix. I uninstalled and resinstalled MS Office 2003 and subsequently applied all of the updates including SP3. At each step I tried to open the older files but was unsucessful. In an effort to recreate the problem, I created a document a document using Office 97 on XP and transferred to a Vista machine with Office 2003 installed. As luck would have it, I was able to read the document without a problem! Since I can recover the documents from a backup, I guess I'll chalk this whole episode up to gremlins. My thanks to you all for your assistance. Bill "Bill D" wrote in message ... I don't think that I Replied to the Group earlier. Sorry if this is a duplicate. Hi: Yes these are created by me. Upon further investigation, it appears that all of the documents created with Office 97 are "corrupted". The more recent documents - created with Office 2003 seem to be ok. However, there are some documents that I cannot draw conclusions about because they've migrated back and forth between machines with different versions of Office. Thanks Bill "finalword" wrote in message news When you open a document, check the bottom most "File Type" box. Does it say Recover any text from file or something other than Word document? If so, set this back to All Word documents or Word document. "Bill D" wrote: Hi: After Googling my question and finding no answer, I came here with my problem. In the last few days I noticed that some of my Documents are not opening properly. All of my docs have the ".Doc" extension but some of them are opening as Plain Text and they're blank!! I first noticed that something was amiss when I opened a document yesterday and Word asked permission to install a converter. I hurriedly said yes and the document opened ok. I just figured that there had been a patch applied by Windows Update. Today when I went to open several other docs I found that some were ok while others were blank and seemed to have many additional pages! On my PC Word is part of MS Office 2003. I'm running Vista Home with all of the latest updates. Oddly I even get Windows updates for MS Office 2007 and I do not have it installed. Any ideas? Thanks Bill |
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