Word 2000 inserting unwanted lines of system info

[Guest]

Every time one particular user creates a document and saves it, the next time
it is opened it contains something like the following:

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Normal
Normal
Default Paragraph Font
Default Paragraph Font
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E:\Rec Desk\testing.docÿ䀀è€&
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Times New Roman
Times New Roman
Symbol
Symbol
Testing to see if problem fixed
Testing to see if problem fixed
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Receptionist
Receptionist
Testing to see if problem fixed
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Normal
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Microsoft Word 9.0
SEND International of Alaska
Testing to see if problem fixed
Root Entry
1Table
1Table
WordDocument
WordDocument
SummaryInformation
SummaryInformation
DocumentSummaryInformation
DocumentSummaryInformation
CompObj
CompObj
ObjectPool
ObjectPool
Microsoft Word Document
MSWordDoc
Word.Document.8

Does anyone know why this text is getting inserted by Word? How do I stop
this from happening?

 

[Jay Freedman]

In the File > Open dialog, change the "Files of type" dropdown from "Recover
text from any file" to "Word documents". See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/RecoverText.htm.

 

[Guest]

That was the problem. I didn't know about the Recover file type. Thanks for
the response and the link to the FAQ.
ctdak