".doc question" Topic
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 Saginaw  | 09 Jul 2009 9:15 p.m. PST |
All I see is a lot of jumbled symbols. What gives? Thanks! |
| Gallowglass | 09 Jul 2009 9:21 p.m. PST |
What version of MS Word do you have? |
| Saginaw | 09 Jul 2009 9:41 p.m. PST |
Good question. I have Windows Vista, if that says anything. Also, is Microsoft's prompting me of upgrading to IE8 connected with the .doc problem? As you can tell, I'm clueless. |
| Gallowglass | 09 Jul 2009 9:46 p.m. PST |
Also, is Microsoft's prompting me of upgrading to IE8 connected with the .doc problem? I don't think so. Unless you have Word (part of the MS Office suite) installed, you won't be able to read Word documents (files ending in '.doc'). Check your PMs |
| napthyme | 09 Jul 2009 11:09 p.m. PST |
open office will open them, also the wordpad under accessories should open them if there not corrupted. |
| Nick Bowler | 10 Jul 2009 6:06 a.m. PST |
Lots of people complain about vista. For me, it works fine. I think most of vista's problems are with compatibility with older stuff, not with vista per se. So if you have a newish computer that came built with vista, I dont think that would be the problem. The open office suggestion is good. Also consider uninstalling and then reinstalling microsoft office. |
| Kayl MacLaren | 10 Jul 2009 7:04 a.m. PST |
Are you sure it's an actual document file, and not just a file that's had its extension renamed? Where did the original file come from? |
| blackscribe | 10 Jul 2009 9:50 a.m. PST |
.DOC doesn't always mean MS Word. It usually does. |
| Who asked this joker | 10 Jul 2009 2:01 p.m. PST |
I have Windows Vista I'm sorry to hear that. Find out what version of office the file was created under. I've seen this problem with conversions from the DOCX format down to the earlier DOC format. That /could/ be the problem. |
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