Word 2003 displaying Documents in plain text

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Adele Snider

I am having a problem with Word 2003 opening documents that are created with
office 97. It is showing up as plain text I think. Instead of there being a
apostrophe there is an equals sign and the formatting is not the same. If
there is a 1/2 measurement in the document it shows the letter d instead.

Even if I copy text from one computer to another with a screen sharing
session the formatting is still wrong. It will be correct on one computer
but after I paste it into the other comptuers copy of word the formatting is
changed.

I have tried to delete the normal.dot file,
Uninstalling and reinstalling office, repairing office
Checked for profile issue by logging in with multiple username's but still
no luck. I am thinking that it might be a problem with registry but I don't
know

Any help you can give me in this matter would be greatly appreciated
Adele
 
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cartoonjunkie

I am not sure if it was created in word or word perfect
The file opens correctly on other computers attached to the network
just not hers.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Do these other computers have the WP Typographic Symbols font installed?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

I am not sure if it was created in word or word perfect
The file opens correctly on other computers attached to the network
just not hers.
 
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cartoonjunkie

I am not sure if they are installed yet I am going install service
pack 2 would the WP Typographic Symbols be included?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

No, this is a WordPerfect font. If the document originated in WordPerfect,
then it would display correctly on machines that have that font installed.
 
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cartoonjunkie

I installed the WP Typographic Symbols font the file name was
WPHV04N_ but it is still not working
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

In that case the issue is not WordPerfect. What font are you using for the
body text?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

If you are in Normal view, do you have "Draft font" enabled (Tools | Options
| View)?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 

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