Re: Help with encryption key in Word 2007

When it asks you select the encoding, it isn't meaning that it has been deliberately encoded as in encryption. What it means is that Word does not recognise the format and needs some help. However, what it really indicates is that the document files are corrupt. There are several possible solutions but probably they have been totally trashed from your description.

First, open Word and use File, Open to select a document and then use the Open and Repair option.

If that fails, again select the file and chose the Recover Text from any File option.

If that fails, try opening the document in WordPad.

If that fails, they are definitely blown.

How were the files recovered from the broken HDD?

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"robert" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4DD0B8FD-76EA-42FC-A0E0-A655A66C7292@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have had 2 PC's running XP Pro prior to the current Vista Business
Nightmare one. On each, I created Word Docs, some which were saved to a
networked location (no domain). Others were saved on the local hard drive of
each computer.
When the hard drive failed on the Vista Nightmare PC, and I recovered the
files, they are now mostly unreadable. I am asked what type of encoding I
wish to use, with no choice bringing up anything but gobbledygook (I had to
look up the spelling on that one!).

I did manage to find 2 encryption keys, and copied them to a thumb drive.

Now how do I de crypt these files?

.

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