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by mal4462

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Using Office 2000 premium edition, specifically Word 2000. Running on
Pentium 3 850Mhz, 128MB Ram, Windows ME operating system. We have a problem using word when trying to open specific previous word files from our server. We are connected to a small network server. Word displays message 'winword has caused an error and will now close', it will not allow the file to be opened, and directs to a new blank word doc. What can we do to open up these old word files?

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by dklippert

Try opening the doc using WordPad. At that point you can save them as RTF/ resave (they'll be in Word 6 format)/ or the old standby - cut and paste.

by bytemi

Open a blank document and type "xxx", then go to insert file, select the file from your network and it should be inserted. Delete the "xxx" from the top of the page and resave it.

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