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a window"File conversion" pop up in Word Docu. unable to read, he.
Lately When I open my Word Doucment, a window "File Conversion" pop up and
asked me to select the encoding to make my douc. readalbe, and nothing works. That has not happened before. Any suggestions? Thank you for the help in advance. Edward |
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a window"File conversion" pop up in Word Docu. unable to read, he.
Are you sure the document you are trying to open is a Word document? If so,
try disabling the conversion prompt (Tools | Options | General: Confirm conversion at Open) and see what happens. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "amitabha" wrote in message ... Lately When I open my Word Doucment, a window "File Conversion" pop up and asked me to select the encoding to make my douc. readalbe, and nothing works. That has not happened before. Any suggestions? Thank you for the help in advance. Edward |
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a window"File conversion" pop up in Word Docu. unable to read,
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you sure the document you are trying to open is a Word document? If so, try disabling the conversion prompt (Tools | Options | General: Confirm conversion at Open) and see what happens. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "amitabha" wrote in message ... Lately When I open my Word Doucment, a window "File Conversion" pop up and asked me to select the encoding to make my douc. readalbe, and nothing works. That has not happened before. Any suggestions? Thank you for the help in advance. Edward Thank you Suzanne. This solve the problem. Ed. |
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a window"File conversion" pop up in Word Docu. unable to read,
Hi i Have the same problem but it didnt work in mine. Its a word document ive
tried ticking and unticking the General: conversion at Open but still its in encoded text. What do you the problem is? "amitabha" wrote: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you sure the document you are trying to open is a Word document? If so, try disabling the conversion prompt (Tools | Options | General: Confirm conversion at Open) and see what happens. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "amitabha" wrote in message ... Lately When I open my Word Doucment, a window "File Conversion" pop up and asked me to select the encoding to make my douc. readalbe, and nothing works. That has not happened before. Any suggestions? Thank you for the help in advance. Edward Thank you Suzanne. This solve the problem. Ed. |
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a window"File conversion" pop up in Word Docu. unable to read,
In that case, either it's not really a Word file, or the file has become
corrupted. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "CRYING FOR HELP" CRYING FOR HELP @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Hi i Have the same problem but it didnt work in mine. Its a word document ive tried ticking and unticking the General: conversion at Open but still its in encoded text. What do you the problem is? "amitabha" wrote: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you sure the document you are trying to open is a Word document? If so, try disabling the conversion prompt (Tools | Options | General: Confirm conversion at Open) and see what happens. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "amitabha" wrote in message ... Lately When I open my Word Doucment, a window "File Conversion" pop up and asked me to select the encoding to make my douc. readalbe, and nothing works. That has not happened before. Any suggestions? Thank you for the help in advance. Edward Thank you Suzanne. This solve the problem. Ed. |
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a window"File conversion" pop up in Word Docu. unable to read,
Could there be possibly any other way I could retrieve this document? What if I use another computer would that work? or is the problem the file itself? Im sure its a word document but now im starting to think its corrupted. How could this have happened? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: In that case, either it's not really a Word file, or the file has become corrupted. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "CRYING FOR HELP" CRYING FOR HELP @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Hi i Have the same problem but it didnt work in mine. Its a word document ive tried ticking and unticking the General: conversion at Open but still its in encoded text. What do you the problem is? "amitabha" wrote: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you sure the document you are trying to open is a Word document? If so, try disabling the conversion prompt (Tools | Options | General: Confirm conversion at Open) and see what happens. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "amitabha" wrote in message ... Lately When I open my Word Doucment, a window "File Conversion" pop up and asked me to select the encoding to make my douc. readalbe, and nothing works. That has not happened before. Any suggestions? Thank you for the help in advance. Edward Thank you Suzanne. This solve the problem. Ed. |
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a window"File conversion" pop up in Word Docu. unable to read,
I guess if we knew exactly how/why files become corrupted, then Microsoft
could fix Word and keep it from happening. One of the most "popular" ways that files become corrupted is when users save files directly to a removable disk from Word, rather than closing the file and copying to the removable disk using Windows Explorer. Another common scenario is that Word crashes/freezes while a file is open, and AutoRecover either isn't enabled or misfires, and the improperly closed file no longer looks like a Word file to Word. Another thing to try... make a copy of the file and try Open and Repair (assuming it's an option), which shows up as one of the options in the Open button's dropdown menu in the Open dialog. If that fails, yes, it's worth trying on another computer. You never can tell. I've also had some success getting Word 2007 to open/repair files that Word 2003 and earlier can't. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "CRYING FOR HELP" wrote in message ... Could there be possibly any other way I could retrieve this document? What if I use another computer would that work? or is the problem the file itself? Im sure its a word document but now im starting to think its corrupted. How could this have happened? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: In that case, either it's not really a Word file, or the file has become corrupted. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "CRYING FOR HELP" CRYING FOR HELP @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Hi i Have the same problem but it didnt work in mine. Its a word document ive tried ticking and unticking the General: conversion at Open but still its in encoded text. What do you the problem is? "amitabha" wrote: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you sure the document you are trying to open is a Word document? If so, try disabling the conversion prompt (Tools | Options | General: Confirm conversion at Open) and see what happens. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "amitabha" wrote in message ... Lately When I open my Word Doucment, a window "File Conversion" pop up and asked me to select the encoding to make my douc. readalbe, and nothing works. That has not happened before. Any suggestions? Thank you for the help in advance. Edward Thank you Suzanne. This solve the problem. Ed. |
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a window"File conversion" pop up in Word Docu. unable to read,
I tell people that if I could answer questions like that, I'd be making **A
LOT** more money than I am now. ;-) -- JoAnn Paules Microsoft MVP - Publisher How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... I guess if we knew exactly how/why files become corrupted, then Microsoft could fix Word and keep it from happening. One of the most "popular" ways that files become corrupted is when users save files directly to a removable disk from Word, rather than closing the file and copying to the removable disk using Windows Explorer. Another common scenario is that Word crashes/freezes while a file is open, and AutoRecover either isn't enabled or misfires, and the improperly closed file no longer looks like a Word file to Word. Another thing to try... make a copy of the file and try Open and Repair (assuming it's an option), which shows up as one of the options in the Open button's dropdown menu in the Open dialog. If that fails, yes, it's worth trying on another computer. You never can tell. I've also had some success getting Word 2007 to open/repair files that Word 2003 and earlier can't. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "CRYING FOR HELP" wrote in message ... Could there be possibly any other way I could retrieve this document? What if I use another computer would that work? or is the problem the file itself? Im sure its a word document but now im starting to think its corrupted. How could this have happened? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: In that case, either it's not really a Word file, or the file has become corrupted. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "CRYING FOR HELP" CRYING FOR HELP @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Hi i Have the same problem but it didnt work in mine. Its a word document ive tried ticking and unticking the General: conversion at Open but still its in encoded text. What do you the problem is? "amitabha" wrote: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you sure the document you are trying to open is a Word document? If so, try disabling the conversion prompt (Tools | Options | General: Confirm conversion at Open) and see what happens. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "amitabha" wrote in message ... Lately When I open my Word Doucment, a window "File Conversion" pop up and asked me to select the encoding to make my douc. readalbe, and nothing works. That has not happened before. Any suggestions? Thank you for the help in advance. Edward Thank you Suzanne. This solve the problem. Ed. |
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a window"File conversion" pop up in Word Docu. unable to read,
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: In that case, either it's not really a Word file, or the file has become corrupted. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "CRYING FOR HELP" CRYING FOR HELP @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Hi i Have the same problem but it didnt work in mine. Its a word document ive tried ticking and unticking the General: conversion at Open but still its in encoded text. What do you the problem is? "amitabha" wrote: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you sure the document you are trying to open is a Word document? If so, try disabling the conversion prompt (Tools | Options | General: Confirm conversion at Open) and see what happens. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "amitabha" wrote in message ... Lately When I open my Word Doucment, a window "File Conversion" pop up and asked me to select the encoding to make my douc. readalbe, and nothing works. That has not happened before. Any suggestions? Thank you for the help in advance. Edward Thank you Suzanne. This solve the problem. Ed. |
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a window"File conversion" pop up in Word Docu. unable to read,
Any ideas on how all my floppy disks (yes I have a 3.5) and files on my flash
drive all which are word documents have all been corrupted? The files on my flash drive were put there in May and I worked with them without porblem going form my work computer to my home computer; the floppies contain files that I update each year and now everyone of those along with the flashdrive open with the converted file, encoded text dialog box and tools/options/ confirm conversion open etc does nothing and I don't have a dropdown menu in my open dialog; anybody have any other suggestions???? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: I guess if we knew exactly how/why files become corrupted, then Microsoft could fix Word and keep it from happening. One of the most "popular" ways that files become corrupted is when users save files directly to a removable disk from Word, rather than closing the file and copying to the removable disk using Windows Explorer. Another common scenario is that Word crashes/freezes while a file is open, and AutoRecover either isn't enabled or misfires, and the improperly closed file no longer looks like a Word file to Word. Another thing to try... make a copy of the file and try Open and Repair (assuming it's an option), which shows up as one of the options in the Open button's dropdown menu in the Open dialog. If that fails, yes, it's worth trying on another computer. You never can tell. I've also had some success getting Word 2007 to open/repair files that Word 2003 and earlier can't. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "CRYING FOR HELP" wrote in message ... Could there be possibly any other way I could retrieve this document? What if I use another computer would that work? or is the problem the file itself? Im sure its a word document but now im starting to think its corrupted. How could this have happened? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: In that case, either it's not really a Word file, or the file has become corrupted. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "CRYING FOR HELP" CRYING FOR HELP @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Hi i Have the same problem but it didnt work in mine. Its a word document ive tried ticking and unticking the General: conversion at Open but still its in encoded text. What do you the problem is? "amitabha" wrote: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you sure the document you are trying to open is a Word document? If so, try disabling the conversion prompt (Tools | Options | General: Confirm conversion at Open) and see what happens. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "amitabha" wrote in message ... Lately When I open my Word Doucment, a window "File Conversion" pop up and asked me to select the encoding to make my douc. readalbe, and nothing works. That has not happened before. Any suggestions? Thank you for the help in advance. Edward Thank you Suzanne. This solve the problem. Ed. |
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a window"File conversion" pop up in Word Docu. unable to read,
Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These are
the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption. Always copy to/from the hard disc and work on the document from there. The same problems will occur with flash drives that are used to access Word documents directly. The reason for this is that Word creates temporary files of indeterminate length in the current workspace. If it is unable to create those files the medium will be corrupted. You *may* be able to recover some of the content with file recovery software. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org teachme wrote: Any ideas on how all my floppy disks (yes I have a 3.5) and files on my flash drive all which are word documents have all been corrupted? The files on my flash drive were put there in May and I worked with them without porblem going form my work computer to my home computer; the floppies contain files that I update each year and now everyone of those along with the flashdrive open with the converted file, encoded text dialog box and tools/options/ confirm conversion open etc does nothing and I don't have a dropdown menu in my open dialog; anybody have any other suggestions???? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: I guess if we knew exactly how/why files become corrupted, then Microsoft could fix Word and keep it from happening. One of the most "popular" ways that files become corrupted is when users save files directly to a removable disk from Word, rather than closing the file and copying to the removable disk using Windows Explorer. Another common scenario is that Word crashes/freezes while a file is open, and AutoRecover either isn't enabled or misfires, and the improperly closed file no longer looks like a Word file to Word. Another thing to try... make a copy of the file and try Open and Repair (assuming it's an option), which shows up as one of the options in the Open button's dropdown menu in the Open dialog. If that fails, yes, it's worth trying on another computer. You never can tell. I've also had some success getting Word 2007 to open/repair files that Word 2003 and earlier can't. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "CRYING FOR HELP" wrote in message ... Could there be possibly any other way I could retrieve this document? What if I use another computer would that work? or is the problem the file itself? Im sure its a word document but now im starting to think its corrupted. How could this have happened? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: In that case, either it's not really a Word file, or the file has become corrupted. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "CRYING FOR HELP" CRYING FOR HELP @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Hi i Have the same problem but it didnt work in mine. Its a word document ive tried ticking and unticking the General: conversion at Open but still its in encoded text. What do you the problem is? "amitabha" wrote: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you sure the document you are trying to open is a Word document? If so, try disabling the conversion prompt (Tools | Options | General: Confirm conversion at Open) and see what happens. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "amitabha" wrote in message ... Lately When I open my Word Doucment, a window "File Conversion" pop up and asked me to select the encoding to make my douc. readalbe, and nothing works. That has not happened before. Any suggestions? Thank you for the help in advance. Edward Thank you Suzanne. This solve the problem. Ed. |
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