I am trying to copy a file orginally done in WORD 97 to my CD/DVD writer. I
recently upgraded to WORD 2003. When I copied the files and viewed them, the
characters are mostly squares and no words. How do I convert those old
files so I may see them on the CD?

Hello Nancy

Nancyw wrote:
> I am trying to copy a file orginally done in WORD 97 to my CD/DVD writer. I
> recently upgraded to WORD 2003. When I copied the files and viewed them, the
> characters are mostly squares and no words. How do I convert those old
> files so I may see them on the CD?

File | Open: "Recover Text from Any File" is probably your best bet.

Chances are, the files got broken during writing on CD (I hope you did
not try to save them there _through Word_?).

HTH
Robert
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