MS Word (2)

[GusGus]

When I try to open .doc file in Windows Explorer, a Microsoft Office Word
dialog box opens up with this message: “Word experienced an error trying to
open the file. Try these suggestions. 1. Check file permissions for the
document or drive. (Don’t know how) 2. Make sure there is sufficient free
memory & disk space ( I have plenty of both) and 3. Open the file with the
Text Recovery converter. (I don’t know what this means). When I click OK on
this dialog box, MS Word opens up normally. So, if you can tell me how to get
rid of those Dialog boxes, I believe everything should be OK!

 

[Cindy M.]

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When I try to open .doc file in Windows Explorer, a Microsoft Office Word
dialog box opens up with this message: “Word experienced an error trying to
open the file. Try these suggestions. 1. Check file permissions for the
document or drive. (Don’t know how) 2. Make sure there is sufficient free
memory & disk space ( I have plenty of both) and 3. Open the file with the
Text Recovery converter. (I don’t know what this means). When I click OK on
this dialog box, MS Word opens up normally. So, if you can tell me how to get
rid of those Dialog boxes, I believe everything should be OK!

Which version of Word do you have?

If you open Word, then use the file/open command to open such a document, do you
get any messages?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[GusGus]

Hi Cindy
I'm using MS Office 2003. When I open Word using the Icon on my desktop,
Word opens without a hitch. Using File/Open, opens up my .doc files fine.
It’s when I click on a .doc file in Windows Explorer or on a shortcut of
Word, that I get the error message. After I click OK on the error message,
Word opens up normally. I hope you can help me eliminate those seemingly
unnecessary error messages. Thank you for responding.
GusGus