Re: Help! Files Unreadable
- From: "Tom Ferguson" <tomf@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:52:11 -0400
I'll skirt the question: It's an encoding problem. However, I hold out no
hope of determining what might overcome it unless you actually provide
details as to what version of Word and Windows were used to create the file
and what version is being used to read them. Also, since you report that you
could read them with your previous setup, let us know details of that setup.
Actual; version numbers, please. (Help About ....)
Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/user
"George" <George@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:81637339-A969-4855-875A-0B6F7CE58564@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> Everything is the same and more advanced ie more updated from the old
> mashine.
> I tried installing all languages in the regional options at control panel.
>
> Here is how the opened corrupted file looks like:
> Is it encryption problem or font problem??
>
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> "Tom Ferguson" wrote:
>
>> What Windows and Word version and language edition was used to create the
>> documents? What Word and operating system version and language was
>> installed
>> when you could read such files?
>>
>> Tom
>> MSMVP
>> Windows Shell/User
>>
>>
>> "George" <George@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:8287C877-0E5C-4A01-A7FC-D90ACF0426AB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Maybe someone knows how to deal with this problem? I had several
>> > documents created about a year ago. Now after reinstalling XP I can not
>> > read
>> > the
>> > documents, they contain funny characters. When I try to open one of
>> > them
>> > with Word it tries to install a converter but after installing it is
>> > still
>> > the same.
>> >
>> > When I open the document with word I get a message "An input converter
>> > has to be installed". I accept and after it is installed there is a
>> > dialogue window with title "File Conversion" "select the encoding that
>> > makes your document readable". It has thre selection boxes on top
>> > "windows default" "MSDOS" "other encoding" which next to it has a
>> > scrolable list of encoding eg Arabic, Greek, Wester European etc. I
>> > have almost all of them but none worked.
>> >
>> > When I convert the document with that windows default selections ie
>> > "windows default", the document is imported but unreadable. Its 250
>> > pages although the original should be about 1-5 pages.
>> > When I select part of the text on the task pane (stiles and formating)
>> > I see the font, it is shown as Plain Text.
>> >
>> > I also saved some web pages as .mht, which again could not be read in
>> > the
>> > same
>> > way with IE.
>> > The only international font I used before was Greek which I still have
>> > it and can read Greek.
>> > I have installed many Greek fonts but did not work.
>> >
>> >
>> > One other thing is that I had these documents encrypted. But now I can
>> > open them using the certificates I have kept. Would the problem be
>> > related
>> > with this?
>> > Now I can open the documents. Usually when a file is still ecrypted
>> > some
>> > gets an error, open access
>> > denied. I do not get this error, so its seems it is decrypted
>> > correctly.
>> >
>> > Is it a problem with fonts or encryption?
>> >
>> > I appreciate your help as its quite important loss.
>> >
>> > George
>>
>>
>>
.
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