Word 2003/2002 compatibility

[Guest]

I work as a contractor for a large corporation that has a lot of
documentation created in various versions of MS Word. The company is
switching to Word 2003 and we have noticed that some of their older documents
will not open. These documents open fine in Word 2002. If you use the Open
and Repair option, you get the following errors in the Show Repairs dialog:

Internal Data Integrity (Type 4) 1
Internal Data Integrity (Type 4) 2

While this operation appears to fix the files so that they will open in Word
2003, we would like to know what is causing the problem. There are thousands
of documents involved and we want to figure out how to identify the corrupted
documents and/or avoid corrupting more documents in the future.

 

[Beth Melton]

More than likely the older documents have been around for a few
versions and contained, or did contain, older ClipArt. At least this
was the cause of a Internal Data Integrity (Type 4) error I
encountered in the past.

The Open and Repair function should permanently correct the document.

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[Guest]

Some of these documents are older, and all of them have some kind of graphics
in them. Some have photos and illustrations or, at the least, the company
logo in the footer. None of them have the Microsoft supplied ClipArt in them,
as in Insert>>ClipArt, though. I have one specimen that has no graphics in it
at all and, since it's a document of mine, I know it never did.

I've also seen mention of bookmarks as a possible cause in an earlier post,
but that doesn't seem to hold up either. Some of my documents don't even have
bookmarks in them.