encoding word file

[Rakesh]

A couple of days back i got my C drive formatted in which I lost some word
and excel files. Now i have recovered the same but when i try to open word
file word displays the dialog box "File Conversion" and asks me to select
text encoding. As well when i try to open an excel file the file get open in
some other non readable format. I expect you guidance in the same.

 

[Rich]

I have the same problem when bringing up a attachment from emails it always
brings up a File conversion window and then asks Text encoding: Windows
(default), MS-DOS, other encoding no matter what I click on it brings up
nonreadable format. A couple of days back i got my C drive formatted and
once I added in Excel, Word, etc onto my computer it gives me this problem
when opening email attachments that use Word. It doesn't however bring up
the file conversion window when i simply bring up Word from my desktop to
create a new document myself. I think this was bought in 2001 or 2002
whatever version that is. any
help would be awesome. thanks.

 

[Rich]

Rakesh I think if you do a free download to adobe acrobat here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
this will solve our problem. I am trying it now. my pdf files were the
problem and probably when we restored our hard drive we needed to add this
and didn't try it.

 

[KB]

I also have the same problem. But I did not format my drive. It started
occuring after I tried to remove some programs from startup. And now every
time I open word or hit reply in outlook I get the encoding error message
which asks me to select correct encoding and no matter what I select it opens
non-readable format.

Any help is appretiated.

Thanks

KB

 

[YogiBear]

Hi, I seem to have the same problem. But it occurs when I archived some files
off our network to a CD (using Roxio ECDC6). When I try to open the file from
the CD, Word2003 brings up the File Encoding dialog - no matter which option
I choose, the file is still unreadable! Someone suggested downloading the SP1
for Office2003, which still doesn't solve my problem. Any more suggestions
out there? or did any of you did get your problem solved in the end? any help
greatly appreciated...

 

[Beth Melton]

Unfortunately it sounds like the documents on your CD are corrupt.
I've encountered this issue myself and so far I haven't found a way to
correct the corruption. :-(

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[YogiBear]

Thx for your input Beth, but the problem only occurs with Word files (I have
archived Excel and Powerpoint files on the same CD, which open up just fine).
Also creating another CD did not eliminate the problem, so can rule out
corruption of the data (checked that the original files are also not
corrupt). Sounds like the problem is too new for a solution to have been
found...

 

[TF]

Have you tried archiving to CD using the Windows XP CD Writing utility. I've
not had any problem archiving my documents onto CD or DVD and I only usually
use the Windows utility to do this.



: Thx for your input Beth, but the problem only occurs with Word files (I
have
: archived Excel and Powerpoint files on the same CD, which open up just
fine).
: Also creating another CD did not eliminate the problem, so can rule out
: corruption of the data (checked that the original files are also not
: corrupt). Sounds like the problem is too new for a solution to have been
: found...
:
: "Beth Melton" wrote:
:
: > Unfortunately it sounds like the documents on your CD are corrupt.
: > I've encountered this issue myself and so far I haven't found a way to
: > correct the corruption. :-(
: >
: > --
: > Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
: > assistance by email can not be acknowledged.
: >
: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: > Beth Melton
: > Microsoft Office MVP
: >
: > Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
: > TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
: > MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
: >
: >
: > : > > Hi, I seem to have the same problem. But it occurs when I archived
: > > some files
: > > off our network to a CD (using Roxio ECDC6). When I try to open the
: > > file from
: > > the CD, Word2003 brings up the File Encoding dialog - no matter
: > > which option
: > > I choose, the file is still unreadable! Someone suggested
: > > downloading the SP1
: > > for Office2003, which still doesn't solve my problem. Any more
: > > suggestions
: > > out there? or did any of you did get your problem solved in the end?
: > > any help
: > > greatly appreciated...
: >
: >
: >

 

[YogiBear]

Worked like a charm...thanks!