[NativeBeauty78]

There are a few Word Doc.s I have saved and now when I open them, there is no
text on the doc. There are only small rectangles in place of the text. I
don't know how this happened, but this is somehow affecting the way my
outlook signature looks. I try to change my outlook signature, and it is
displayed as the same rectangles. I've tried nearly everything to fix this
problem, but so far I've had no luck. Does anyone have information that
might be of some help.

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi NB78

NativeBeauty78 wrote:
There are a few Word Doc.s I have saved and now when I open them, there is no
text on the doc. There are only small rectangles in place of the text. I
don't know how this happened, but this is somehow affecting the way my
outlook signature looks. I try to change my outlook signature, and it is
displayed as the same rectangles. I've tried nearly everything to fix this
problem, but so far I've had no luck. Does anyone have information that
might be of some help.

you first: which version of Word? :-)

When you are in Word and go to File | Open: is it on "*.doc" ..? It
sounds as you are working in Word 97 or maybe 2000, and the setting is
stuck on "Recover Text from any File". You had to explicitly reset it to
*.doc in earlier versions.

2¢
Robert
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[NativeBeauty78]

Good Morning RMF

I am using Word 2003. When in word I went to File , Open and it wasn't set
to .doc. it was set to All word Documents (*.doc; *.dot; *.htm; *.html;
*.url;*

How can I change this setting? I'm kind of New with working with computers,
and all the software, but I'm a quick learner. I have yet to learn how to
fix problems as I have here.

I would appreciate any information you could provide me with.

Thank you,

Native Beauty 78

"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote:

Hi NB78

NativeBeauty78 wrote:
There are a few Word Doc.s I have saved and now when I open them, there is no
text on the doc. There are only small rectangles in place of the text. I
don't know how this happened, but this is somehow affecting the way my
outlook signature looks. I try to change my outlook signature, and it is
displayed as the same rectangles. I've tried nearly everything to fix this
problem, but so far I've had no luck. Does anyone have information that
might be of some help.

you first: which version of Word? :-)

When you are in Word and go to File | Open: is it on "*.doc" ..? It
sounds as you are working in Word 97 or maybe 2000, and the setting is
stuck on "Recover Text from any File". You had to explicitly reset it to
*.doc in earlier versions.

2¢
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
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[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

NativeBeauty78 wrote:
I am using Word 2003. When in word I went to File , Open and it wasn't set
to .doc. it was set to All word Documents (*.doc; *.dot; *.htm; *.html;
*.url;*

That's the correct setting, I'm sure.

OK. Where did you save those files? I would try opening them on another
computer. There is a chance that they really _are_ broken, though (my
first guess was that Word only opens them with a wrong "filter")

Greetings
Robert
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