Word 2001 showing HTML-like tags?

[Christopher]

My wife is a freelance editor. On her current project,
several Word files show HTML-like tags in the body.

Example:

<SECONDARY_TITLE>Surgery</SECONDARY_TITLE>

I brought the file into Word 2002 on my PC, and it worked
just fine. I presume the author must be using an even
newer version of Word (either 2003 for Windows or Office
X or 2004 for Mac) and that these are style tags used
within Word itself that her version won't display
correctly.

Has anyone else run into this problem? I've tried
opening the files as Word docs and "Recover text from any
file" and get the same result. I've never seen this
problem before. Strange. I'm downloading the update to
Office 2001, but I doubt it will be of any help.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Christopher,

I'm still in Office 2001 so if you'd like to send one of the files to me,
I'll take a look at it and try to figure out what's going on. If you take
me up on this, please put the following ­ "WORDtest" (exactly like that but
without quotes) ­ somewhere in the Subject line so I don't throw your post
out with the junk mail.

In the meantime, you should try to find out what version of Word created the
files and how they were encoded when they were sent to you. However, you
should be able to read a Word 2003 or 2004 document in Word 2001 without any
trouble.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

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