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by yellowbelly80

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I had previously had to import some data into word from a proprietary program. Word asked me that it does not recognize this format would you like to install support for this feature and I clicked yes. What is this message, what does it do, and is there a better way to go about in handling this?

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by aaron_lvs_it

This message simply means that it needs to install an additional feature that comes with Office, in order to read that file type, and to convert it to the Word format if needed. There is no other way to go around this that I am aware of, besides opening the file with the same program the file was originally created in. You could also try opening it in Acrobat Reader, depending on the file type. It may open it without any problems. Hope this helps.

by jpt

What you should do is try reinstalling Word, but choose the custom setup. There are three ways Word or Office 2000 is setup to run. 1 Run from Computer, 2 Run from CD and 3 Install when required. This option is used a lot when you use the typical installation. When using the custom install you can choose to install all the file format conversions that Word can do and have it run from your computer so you will never have to use the CD again...unless of coarse something drastic goes wrong.

Try that and see if it helps you out.

Good Luck.

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