Re: Office/Word

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Hi Russ,

The version of Office is 2002 (XP). How I know it is encrypted
is by the green font that is assocciated with the file name and in the
properties of the file, the encrytion box is checked. For whatever reason I
can't decrypt anything. I can't even email the these files.

You might ask about this in a support group for the kind of back-up media you
used. This isn't something Word was responsible for, but something that's
happened in your OS.

Here is an interesting situation. Somehow, some of my Word documents
became
encrypted without me knowing it. I had just formatted my PC and when I
restored the Word documents, I couldn't open them because they are
encrypted. I had followed the procedures to decrypt them, but I cannot
gain
access.

Is there any way around this?

Which version of Word? What makes you think they're encrypted?

From the sound of it, I'm inclined to think the internal file structures
may
have been scrambled "during transmission" to your backup media...


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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