I have a document created with Word 2000. When I try to open it in Word 2007,
I get a window entitled File Conversion and it says in the window: Select the
encoding that makes your document readable. I select Windows (Default) but it
doesn't open the document. Please note also 1) it does NOT say Compatability
Mode in the title bar of Word 2007 and 2) in the preview pane of the File
Conversion window it says: This program cannot be run in DOS mode (among
other funny characters) and 3) the same thing happens with all my old
documents. Thanks for any help.

Have you tried Open and Repair? If that doesn't work, it may not be possible
to retrieve the contents. :-(

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"grahams" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a document created with Word 2000. When I try to open it in Word
>2007,
> I get a window entitled File Conversion and it says in the window: Select
> the
> encoding that makes your document readable. I select Windows (Default) but
> it
> doesn't open the document. Please note also 1) it does NOT say
> Compatability
> Mode in the title bar of Word 2007 and 2) in the preview pane of the File
> Conversion window it says: This program cannot be run in DOS mode (among
> other funny characters) and 3) the same thing happens with all my old
> documents. Thanks for any help.