hi

i have recently upgraded to office 2003, and use word frequently.

i have noticed though that a number of my old word documents created and
saved in word 2000 will not open in word 2003, giving the error box:


"word experience an arror trying to open the file try these uggestions
1. Check the file permissions for rht doc or drive
2. make sure sufficient memory
3. open the file with text recovery converter"

what makes this weird is that, i can still open the files in word 2000
(tried it on a friends pc), but im unable to open them in 2003

any thoughts?

thanks
stuart

Are you trying to open them from a floppy or other removable disk?

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hi

i have recently upgraded to office 2003, and use word frequently.

i have noticed though that a number of my old word documents created and
saved in word 2000 will not open in word 2003, giving the error box:


"word experience an arror trying to open the file try these uggestions
1. Check the file permissions for rht doc or drive
2. make sure sufficient memory
3. open the file with text recovery converter"

what makes this weird is that, i can still open the files in word 2000
(tried it on a friends pc), but im unable to open them in 2003

any thoughts?

thanks
stuart

Hi ?B?c3R1YXJ0?=,

Each version of Word uses a slightly different (optimized) file structure.
If everything in the file is just right, they can all open and use
documents created in another version (Word 97 through 2003). But if
something is "off", it's possible that the originating version can still
work with the file, but another version cannot.

Try saving the file on the Word 2000 system to HTML and/or RTF and see if
Word 2003 can't open that.

i have recently upgraded to office 2003, and use word frequently.

i have noticed though that a number of my old word documents created and
saved in word 2000 will not open in word 2003, giving the error box:


"word experience an arror trying to open the file try these uggestions
1. Check the file permissions for rht doc or drive
2. make sure sufficient memory
3. open the file with text recovery converter"

what makes this weird is that, i can still open the files in word 2000
(tried it on a friends pc), but im unable to open them in 2003

any thoughts?


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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