How to open in Word 2007 a Word document older than 1995?

[Guest]

I am not able to open in Word 2007 documents created by Word older than 1995.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Are you sure that file isn't corrupt?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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[Graham Mayor]

For the oldest Word formats, you may need an add-in converter. The DOSWORD
converter you can download from my web site should work, but I have no old
Word documents to test it. http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm
You will need to change the included registry patch from

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Text
Converters\Import\DOSWord]
"Name"="Word for DOS"
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft
Shared\\TextConv\\Doswrd32.CNV"
"Extensions"="doc"

to

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Text
Converters\Import\DOSWord]
"Name"="Word for DOS"
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft
Shared\\TextConv\\Doswrd32.CNV"
"Extensions"="doc"


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