Re: Using Old Word Documents

I appreciate your suggestions. Unfortunately, neither of them worked.
I did change the font and the preferences but have to admit I don't
know what "encoding" is. If you could explain that maybe I could try
that as well. File, Open does the same as a double click. Thank you
for your suggestions.

Laurie

little_creature wrote:
1. Could that be caused by missing font? When open such a document try
to change font.
2. Could that be a problem of encoding? Try to set in Preferences
General>confirm conversion at open and then try to open document and
change different encoding if that will help
3. Try to run Word and do File>Open instead of double click on your file


Laurie said the following on 28.9.2006 4:14:
A year ago I upgraded my computer to both Tiger and MS Office 2004. I
have a lot of Word documents that are from previous versions of Word
many of which are no longer opening. The symbol on the file listing
has the typical W before the document name and the "info" says it's a
Word document 1.x-5.x. So I know the computer recognizes that it is a
Word document and not another word processor. When I click on "Open"
the document opens but then all I have is those nice little black
squares where there should be letters and punctuation. Any suggestions
on how I can recover my old documents?

Thank you!
Laurie


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