Odd text appearing in old documents - Word 2000

[Les]

I am find that when I open old documents they ALL have odd text (something
like tracking information) appended at the bottom - text that was not there
when saved. For example, the following from a document the contents of which
originally read "My IP address: 68 ....(rest of address)" now has the
following appended. Any idea what is going on?
Normal
Normal
Default Paragraph Font
Default Paragraph Font
Ted"C:\Lester Documents\IP address.docÿä€è€
Unknownÿï¼
Times New Roman
Times New Roman
Symbol
Symbol
My IP address: 68
My IP address: 68
My IP address: 68
Normal
Microsoft Word 9.0
My IP address: 68
Root Entry
1Table
1Table
WordDocument
WordDocument
SummaryInformation
SummaryInformation
DocumentSummaryInformation
DocumentSummaryInformation
CompObj
CompObj
ObjectPool
ObjectPool
Microsoft Word Document
MSWordDoc
Word.Document.8

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/RecoverText.htm

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

In Word, click on File | Open. If "Files of Type" is set to "Recover
text from any file", then change it to "Word documents", "All Word
documents", or "All files". Select a file and click on Open.