word 2002 not opening earlier versions correctly.

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Peter - 28 Jul 2003 12:06 GMT

I have a problem in using word 2002 to access word docs
from earlier versions. I simply get a screen saying select
the encoding that makes your document viewable and various
options of ascii, dos, ansi vietnamese, korean etc etc.
The problem is all of them give me

qå ░ï╗ ðG|├.Fí Æµ5ØÅ ;░¥Aö▄ê ■RÚ┬dıÐ÷®S ¹ñÚ>~s‗d┼ã½ =
╔Q├´?W}4║«╠5bäòFñ[a¤ÊÌÍ0ÆJh<.¤¼─╣ßWe¯®Æ÷GÐÁQu 0ë@ ´É

or similar (above should show mixture of gibberish
characters).

All the documents are word 6, rtf or word 98 and are in
standard English created by word 98 or 2000.

any help much appreciated.

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peter - 29 Jul 2003 15:21 GMT

Sorry I meant the following versions....
format of file is word 6, rtf or word 97 and they are in
standard English and they were created by word 97 or 2000.

Its rather odd as not all of the files created by those
versions dated around that time are corrupt; most can be
opened by the 2002 software.

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Bob Buckland ?:-\) - 29 Jul 2003 18:19 GMT

Hi Peter,

In Tools=>Options=>General if you turn on
[x] Confirm conversion at Open then open one
of these files does Word show a dialog box
that it thinks these are not .DOC formats?

Were you using [x] Allow Fast Saves when creating
the files? That can break them.

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Sorry I meant the following versions....
format of file is word 6, rtf or word 97 and they are in
standard English and they were created by word 97 or 2000.

Its rather odd as not all of the files created by those
versions dated around that time are corrupt; most can be
opened by the 2002 software. >>

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Peter - 31 Jul 2003 14:43 GMT

Hiya

>In Tools=>Options=>General if you turn on
>[x] Confirm conversion at Open then open one
>of these files does Word show a dialog box
>that it thinks these are not .DOC formats?

'It says The file is not the right file type.' On another
machine using word 2002 it opens them ok and says they are
Word 95 or 6.0 format.

>Were you using [x] Allow Fast Saves when creating
>the files? That can break them.

not to my knowledge. good game isn't it.

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