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corrupt files in Word 2000

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by michaelkerr

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I get this error message, "This document may be corrupt. To preserve the contents: Choose Select All from the Edit menu, then choose Copy from the Edit menu", everytime I open a document in word 2000. I went on line to search Microsoft's Web site and they said to go into the Regedit "Hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\office\9.0\word\options - but it's not there, please help...

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by dklippert

First of all, rename/delete Normal.dot.
Delete any left over TMP files that Word drops. They start with a tilde (~). You can delete
~*.*
Start word on the RUN line using:
Winword.exe /a
Now open the document. Turn on the Show/Hide on the toolbar so you can see all of the formatting characters.
Go to the bottom of the document and click in front of the very last paragraph marker.
Hit Ctrl+Shift+Home.
Copy and Paste into a new document.

Here are some references:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?U32B65851

http://makeashorterlink.com/?U60B24851

http://www.multilinker.com/wordfaq/damaged.htm

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