I did as you suggested and checked that the "Files of Type" box was set to
"Rich Text Format (*.rtf), then clicked on the file. A box appears called
"Convert File". If I select "Text Only" I get the undecoded rtf file of which
I posted a few lines. If I select in the "Convert File" box the "Rich text
Format" option, Word then presents me with a box which says "The document
name or path is not valid. Try these sugggestions *Check the file permissions
for the document or drive * Use the File Open dialog box to locate the
document (C:\Windows\Profiles\Tony\....\Wynne.rtf)*. This is for a document
that already opens, undecoded, quite normally! What is going on????

*I shortened the name by renaming it to Wynne.rtf

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

In File - Open, make sure that Files of Type is not set to "Recover text
from any file". In later versions of Word, that automatically gets set to a
different Files of Type if you use the recover feature. In Word 2000,
however, it gets stuck there until you manually set it to something
different.

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"lajinchi" wrote in message
...
I have been sent a Word produced rtf file (don't know which version of
Word)
which my version of Word (2000) does not decode. Is there some other
reader I
should have? The first few lines of the document a-

Content-Type: application/rtf;
name="Itinerary - WYNNE/J .rtf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="Itinerary - WYNNE/J .rtf"

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1255\fbidis\deff0\deflang1037\d eftab720
\paperw11906\paperh16838\ltrdoc
\margt0
{\defformat\doctype0\viewkind0\viewzk0\psz9}
{\fonttbl{\f0\fprq2\ Arial
}{\f1\fprq2\ Times New Roman}{\f2\fprq2\ Arial}{\f3\fprq2\
Arial}{\f4\fprq2\