Word 2000 Error from Word 2003 docs

[Lucinda]

Hi

I am having trouble opening documents in Word 2000 created in Word 2003 with
Windows XP. Word 2000 seems to corrupt the documents and I am unable to open
them again.

If I open these documents in Word 97, save them, then reopen them in Word
2000 again they are fine.

Are there any reasons to explain this.

Thanks again,
Lucinda.

 

[RWN]

What, exactly is happening? - Error message(s)??
Where are you opening them from - Hard Disk/Floppy/CD??

 

[Lucinda]

The error message is as follows:

"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If
the problem persists....

WINWORD caused an invalid page fault in module WINWORD.EXE at 0167:30313935.
Registers:
EAX=0000ffff CS=0167 EIP=30313935 EFLGS-00010246
EBX=00002800 SS=016f ESP=0062a224 EBP=0062a37c
ECX=006a85a8 DS=016f ESI=006490d3 FS=262f
EDX=0000004f ES=016f EDI=006490da GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 34 41 83 7d 20 00 74 10 83 7d 1c 00 74 0a etc."

I am opening these documents from my hard drive.

Thanking you again,
Lucinda