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?

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?