office XP/ files have changed format

[Robbie Brooks]

All of my existing microsoft word documents and excel documents have
changed format in the last couple days and I cannot read them.
Microsoft office XP is un-able to convert them back to msword or excel
format. Anyone else having problem? If so please email
(e-mail address removed)

Thanks

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What format have they changed to? Did you install another Office suite and
then open the documents? What file extension do they now have?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Robbie Brooks <rbrooks@starband.net> asked:

| All of my existing microsoft word documents and excel documents have
| changed format in the last couple days and I cannot read them.
| Microsoft office XP is un-able to convert them back to msword or excel
| format. Anyone else having problem? If so please email
| (e-mail address removed)
|
| Thanks

 

[Robbie Brooks]

No, I did not install any other products. The documents still have the
original extensions but are encoded as follows:


run in DOS mode.
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This is a Sample Microsoft document out of My Documents.

Thanks for your interest.

Robbie

 

[Robbie Brooks]

I am using Office XP on my pc for word processing. My
operating system is also XP. I was originally using
Windows 2k Pro, I formated pc hard drive and installed a
clean copy of XP. I have SCSI drives and I have MY
DOCUMENTS on one Quicken on another so on and so forth.
My documents span several years starting with Office 97
and progressed to Office XP. A couple weeks ago my wife
went to access a document she had written earlier and she
said she could not read it that it looked chinese to her.
I looked at several documents in the MY DOCUMENTS folder
and they have all been converted some how. The file names
nor the extensions have changed but the files are
converted and office can not read them. When I try to
open any of the documents the MS WORD screen comes up
STARTS FLASHING and at the bottom of the screen in the
gray area it says "Requesting virus scan..." it acts as
if it is going to open the document but instead a CONVERT
FILE screen comes up with several different conversion
choices such as RTF,plain text, encoded text etc. I have
tried all the choices and it always comes up the same.
UNREADABLE BY ME and WORD. Anyone had a simular problem?
Here is a sample of one of the documents after they are
opened. This is a paper my son wrote for school. JUST
HOPING I DONT HAVE TO LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE!!! I have
nornton on my pc and it does not show any viruses

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