Word can't open graphics files directly, regardless of what it's a picture
of. You can insert a .tif into a Word file... but it will show up as a
picture, not as text. As JoAnn indicates, if you want to use the contents
of the .tif as text, you'll need to use something like optical character
recognition (OCR) to convert the picture to text. Microsoft Office Document
Imaging (in Microsoft Office Tools) can do this for you... usually pretty
well, but not quite as well as stand-alone OCR programs.
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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
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"Mr Ranger" wrote in message
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"JoAnn Paules" wrote in
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Why are you opening a picture with a word processor? You can "insert"
in a Word doc them but don't "open" them.
The file is a Text only document. I can open the .TIF file with "Microsoft
Office Document Imaging", yet not with "Word".
Mr Ranger