Word 2003 Encoding Problem

L

Live101Proof

Hi,

Opening a word 2003 doc, I get a dialog that says "Select the encoding that
makes your document readable". No matter which option I select, I get
garbled text. File association is ok, normal.dot is the template...occurs on
multiple systems. Here's a sample of the text. Please help!

%PDF-1.2
% âãÃÓ
1 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/MediaBox [0 0 612 792]
/CropBox [0 0 612 792]
/Parent 2 0 R
/Rotate 0 /Resources <<
/ProcSet [/PDF /ImageC /ImageB /ImageI]
/XObject <<
/Obj3 3 0 R >>
/Contents [ 4 0 R ]
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
endobj
3 0 obj
<< /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Name /Obj3 /Width 2550 /Height 3300
/ColorSpace /DeviceGray /BlackIs1 true /BitsPerComponent 1 /Length 5 0 R
/Filter /CCITTFaxDecode /DecodeParms << /K -1 /Columns 2550 >> >> stream
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J

Jay Freedman

The answer is on the first line of the text you showed:
%PDF-1.2
Click to expand...

This file is a PDF file, not a Word or text file, regardless of what
the extension may have been changed to. Word cannot open PDF; the only
thing it can do is insert the file into a Word document as an embedded
object.

If the file's extension is now .doc, change it to .pdf and open it
with Adobe Reader.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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Hi,

Opening a word 2003 doc, I get a dialog that says "Select the encoding that
makes your document readable". No matter which option I select, I get
garbled text. File association is ok, normal.dot is the template...occurs on
multiple systems. Here's a sample of the text. Please help!

%PDF-1.2
% âãÏÓ
1 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/MediaBox [0 0 612 792]
/CropBox [0 0 612 792]
/Parent 2 0 R
/Rotate 0 /Resources <<
/ProcSet [/PDF /ImageC /ImageB /ImageI]
/XObject <<
/Obj3 3 0 R >>
/Contents [ 4 0 R ]
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
endobj
3 0 obj
<< /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Name /Obj3 /Width 2550 /Height 3300
/ColorSpace /DeviceGray /BlackIs1 true /BitsPerComponent 1 /Length 5 0 R
/Filter /CCITTFaxDecode /DecodeParms << /K -1 /Columns 2550 >> >> stream
ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿüÈš‚ 0‚¬ }âN©Gÿÿÿÿÿÿÿþwª‰ G;:ÜÿÿÿùÚ~ñÿÎÆ/¬Ë*
?“p%ãÿÿÿÿÿå0SÇÿÿÿÿÿÿËY)‘¡h0D1© Êò ~F
Click to expand...
 
L

Live101Proof

Ahh, thank you, Jay! I suspected it had something to do with PDFs.

Live101Proof said:
Hi,

Opening a word 2003 doc, I get a dialog that says "Select the encoding that
makes your document readable". No matter which option I select, I get
garbled text. File association is ok, normal.dot is the template...occurs on
multiple systems. Here's a sample of the text. Please help!

%PDF-1.2
% âãÃÓ
1 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/MediaBox [0 0 612 792]
/CropBox [0 0 612 792]
/Parent 2 0 R
/Rotate 0 /Resources <<
/ProcSet [/PDF /ImageC /ImageB /ImageI]
/XObject <<
/Obj3 3 0 R >>
/Contents [ 4 0 R ]
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
endobj
3 0 obj
<< /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Name /Obj3 /Width 2550 /Height 3300
/ColorSpace /DeviceGray /BlackIs1 true /BitsPerComponent 1 /Length 5 0 R
/Filter /CCITTFaxDecode /DecodeParms << /K -1 /Columns 2550 >> >> stream
ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿüÈš‚ 0‚¬ }âN©Gÿÿÿÿÿÿÿþwª‰ G;:ÜÿÿÿùÚ~ñÿÎÆ/¬Ë*
“p%ãÿÿÿÿÿå0SÇÿÿÿÿÿÿËY)‘¡h0D1© Êò ~F
Click to expand...
 
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