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Kathy Kensche Kathy Kensche is offline
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Default Files open as Garbage

you probably already tried opening them as rich text or txt? It's the only
thing I can think of that may allow you recovering any text values in there?
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Kathy Kensche

"Brenda from Michigan" wrote:

User was recently converted to Word 2002 SP3 which is what I use. She has
some previous documents that were done in either Word 97 or Word 2000. When
she or I attempt to open them in Word 2002, they look like what you might see
if you opened with 'recover text from any file'. If you have 'confirm
conversion at open' checked in Options, they show as "Convert file from
'encoded' " and the result is the same as if you did a 'Recover text from any
file.'

I've tried inserting them as a picture, opening with WordPerfect and
removing the .doc. Does anyone have any idea what might be going on with
these Word files? I'm stumped!
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Brenda