Word Documents "Funny"

[Stephen Blakley]

Hello all. I'm new here and have a question. All of a sudden one (of
four) MS word document subdirectories has a problem. All documents in
this subdirectory do not open properly. (All other subdirectories are ok).

This is what I get when I try to open the documents in this particular
subdirectory....

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Can I assume this is some type of virus? I have some of the doucments
backed up but of course not all of them.

Anyone know what the problem is?