Re: Word03 rejects some Word2k files (says file is corrupt)

From: garfield-n-odie (garfieldnodie_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:52:31 -0800

In Word 2003, click on File | Open, click on the little black triangle
at the right end of the Open button, choose "Open and Repair", and open
the Word 2000 file.

?? wrote:

> Why?
> Is this a ploy by MS to make everybody update to Office 03?
> I can't find any references on MS site about incompatibility issues with
> Word2003 and all previous versions of Word. Eg. 97, 2K, XP.
> The document will open in any of those versions but Word 2003 will not open
> the file and pops up "Word was unable to read the document and may be corrupt"
> I've been able to save the Word2K file as an RTF then as a W2K.doc file and
> then I can open in 2003.
> Did I waste my money buying office03?
> What the?
>

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