[Jorge Bravo[_2_]]

My wife created a Word document, in English, while in Russia in an Internet
café, and saved it to her flash pen as TMA5.odt (don't ask me why! Maybe it
has something to do with .dot). Anyway, now that she is back she cannot read
the file. Word brings up a box saying "Word cannot start the converter
mswrd632.wpc.

Could you help? The file is very important as it is many days work on her
thesis.

Thank you and Merry Xmas.

JB

[Graham Mayor]

Nothing to do with DOT. Presumably she used Open Office to save as ODT file
format?

You would need a converter to open ODT format in Word
http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/

As for the error message, there have been some problems relating to a
Windows update that replaced this file with a newer version. You could
uninstall the 973904 update which should restore the older mswrd632.wpc file
that the update replaced. It won't help you convert the file if you don't
have the appropriate converter installed

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




"Jorge Bravo" wrote in message
...

My wife created a Word document, in English, while in Russia in an
Internet café, and saved it to her flash pen as TMA5.odt (don't ask me
why! Maybe it has something to do with .dot). Anyway, now that she is back
she cannot read the file. Word brings up a box saying "Word cannot start
the converter mswrd632.wpc.

Could you help? The file is very important as it is many days work on her
thesis.

Thank you and Merry Xmas.

JB

[Jorge Bravo[_2_]]

Thank you Graham

Meanwhile, I have solved the puzzle. It appears that she wrote the file in
Word2007 and her computer here has Word2002, which is not compatible. I
read the file in my daughter's computer with 2007 and saved it for an
earlier version. It works fine.

Thank you and Merry Xmas

Jorge



"Graham Mayor" escreveu na mensagem
...
Nothing to do with DOT. Presumably she used Open Office to save as ODT
file format?

You would need a converter to open ODT format in Word
http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/

As for the error message, there have been some problems relating to a
Windows update that replaced this file with a newer version. You could
uninstall the 973904 update which should restore the older mswrd632.wpc
file that the update replaced. It won't help you convert the file if you
don't have the appropriate converter installed

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




"Jorge Bravo" wrote in message
...

My wife created a Word document, in English, while in Russia in an
Internet café, and saved it to her flash pen as TMA5.odt (don't ask me
why! Maybe it has something to do with .dot). Anyway, now that she is
back she cannot read the file. Word brings up a box saying "Word cannot
start the converter mswrd632.wpc.

Could you help? The file is very important as it is many days work on her
thesis.

Thank you and Merry Xmas.

JB