Opening old word docs in Vista Home Premium

I am not able to open word documents copied to my laptop using Office 2007.
Am I missing something? PPT,XL and Adobe all open but not word. The warning
is 'This is not a winword 32 document' or something similar.

What is the exact error message?


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Eric Palm
MSFT Office Setup


"theleveller" wrote:

> I am not able to open word documents copied to my laptop using Office 2007.
> Am I missing something? PPT,XL and Adobe all open but not word. The warning
> is 'This is not a winword 32 document' or something similar.

Just to clarify: The docouments are DOC files created in a previous version
of Word, and you are unable to open them in Word 2007?

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Susan Ramlet
MVP - Office

Please reply to the newsgroup. I cannot respond to private requests for
help. Besides, then the community doesn't benefit from your question!


"theleveller" <theleveller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:072325C8-B7F7-4CF1-A59D-1054B4E2F7ED@microsoft.com...
>I am not able to open word documents copied to my laptop using Office 2007.
> Am I missing something? PPT,XL and Adobe all open but not word. The
> warning
> is 'This is not a winword 32 document' or something similar.

Susan - correct. All other elements of Word 2007 appear to open with no
problems.

"Susan Ramlet" wrote:

> Just to clarify: The docouments are DOC files created in a previous version
> of Word, and you are unable to open them in Word 2007?
>
> --
> --
> Susan Ramlet
> MVP - Office
>
> Please reply to the newsgroup. I cannot respond to private requests for
> help. Besides, then the community doesn't benefit from your question!
>
>
> "theleveller" <theleveller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:072325C8-B7F7-4CF1-A59D-1054B4E2F7ED@microsoft.com...
> >I am not able to open word documents copied to my laptop using Office 2007.
> > Am I missing something? PPT,XL and Adobe all open but not word. The
> > warning
> > is 'This is not a winword 32 document' or something similar.
>
>
>

Would you mind posting the exact error message? Is this ALL Word documents
that came from one machine? What version of Word were they created in (if
the same)?

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Susan Ramlet
MVP - Office

Please reply to the newsgroup. I cannot respond to private requests for
help. Besides, then the community doesn't benefit from your question!


"theleveller" <theleveller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:618D1072-D86F-42C3-9937-1AB932282EBB@microsoft.com...
> Susan - correct. All other elements of Word 2007 appear to open with no
> problems.
>
> "Susan Ramlet" wrote:
>
>> Just to clarify: The docouments are DOC files created in a previous
>> version
>> of Word, and you are unable to open them in Word 2007?
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Susan Ramlet
>> MVP - Office
>>
>> Please reply to the newsgroup. I cannot respond to private requests for
>> help. Besides, then the community doesn't benefit from your question!
>>
>>
>> "theleveller" <theleveller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:072325C8-B7F7-4CF1-A59D-1054B4E2F7ED@microsoft.com...
>> >I am not able to open word documents copied to my laptop using Office
>> >2007.
>> > Am I missing something? PPT,XL and Adobe all open but not word. The
>> > warning
>> > is 'This is not a winword 32 document' or something similar.
>>
>>
>>