OPEN NEW DOC - FILE CONVERSION POPS UP

Office XP Small Business (Word 2002)
Windows XP Home

When I open any new or existing Office document a window pops up titled:

File Conversion - ~$DFWord

It asks me to select the encoding that makes my office document readable. I
have opted for Windows Default, Other Encoding - Western European (Windows),
and hit the ESC button. No matter what I do it brings up the following box:

(Yellow triangle with exclamation point inside)
The Add-in Template is not valid
(C:\PROGRA~1\MI1933~1\...\~$DFWord.dot)

I click OK or ESC and my file loads or the template loads. When one office
document is open and I go to open another or open a template it works fine.

In TOOLS/OPTIONS/GENERAL the "Confirm Conversion at Open" is not checked.

Any ideas appreciated.

Suzanne Barnhill and Terry Farrell provided the solution from other MS
discussion boards.

The filename ~$DFWord.dot indicates the "owner" file left over from an
add-in that has probably been removed (likely an add-in that creates PDF
files). Go to the Word or Office Startup folder, find the add-in, and delete
it.


"ADKR" wrote:

> Office XP Small Business (Word 2002)
> Windows XP Home
>
> When I open any new or existing Office document a window pops up titled:
>
> File Conversion - ~$DFWord
>
> It asks me to select the encoding that makes my office document readable. I
> have opted for Windows Default, Other Encoding - Western European (Windows),
> and hit the ESC button. No matter what I do it brings up the following box:
>
> (Yellow triangle with exclamation point inside)
> The Add-in Template is not valid
> (C:\PROGRA~1\MI1933~1\...\~$DFWord.dot)
>
> I click OK or ESC and my file loads or the template loads. When one office
> document is open and I go to open another or open a template it works fine.
>
> In TOOLS/OPTIONS/GENERAL the "Confirm Conversion at Open" is not checked.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
>

Hi ADKR,

Documents that start with ~$
are usually Word temporary files rather than Word documents.
They only appear if you've turned on the settings to view
Hidden files using Windows explorer.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211632/en-us?FR=1


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Office XP Small Business (Word 2002)
Windows XP Home

When I open any new or existing Office document a window pops up titled:

File Conversion - ~$DFWord

It asks me to select the encoding that makes my office document readable. I
have opted for Windows Default, Other Encoding - Western European (Windows),
and hit the ESC button. No matter what I do it brings up the following box:

(Yellow triangle with exclamation point inside)
The Add-in Template is not valid
(C:\PROGRA~1\MI1933~1\...\~$DFWord.dot)

I click OK or ESC and my file loads or the template loads. When one office
document is open and I go to open another or open a template it works fine.

In TOOLS/OPTIONS/GENERAL the "Confirm Conversion at Open" is not checked.

Any ideas appreciated. >>
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