You might want to try changing the document extension from .doc to .rtf and
then try opening the file.

You may also wantn to check the Word options -- there is setting that lets
you open older documents.

"Adam" wrote:

I just got upgraded to Windows XP Pro and Word 2003. I can open most of my
docs created in my old system that had Windows and Word 2000. But certain
docs I can't open, and they cause Word to hang. No error messages appear, it
just hangs. If I try to open them again it says "Word had trouble opening
this last time...etc." and marks the file as "disabled" in the Disabled Files
list. I take it out of the list (re-enable it), but it still won't open.

Any ideas?