Corrupted documents

I have a series of documents that suddenly refused to open in Word
2002/2003. When I try, the program just sits there and eventually has to be
killed through task manager. The documents open fine in WordPad, I save
them in .rtf and can open the new file in Word without difficulty, but when
I save them back as a .doc I can't open the new file. This behavior is
noted on 4 different machines (the files are shared on a server).

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Allan
Wed Jul 21 15:32:21 CDT 2004

copy the text, paste and save them in a new word doc.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a series of documents that suddenly refused to
open in Word
>2002/2003. When I try, the program just sits there and
eventually has to be
>killed through task manager. The documents open fine in
WordPad, I save
>them in .rtf and can open the new file in Word without
difficulty, but when
>I save them back as a .doc I can't open the new file.
This behavior is
>noted on 4 different machines (the files are shared on a
server).
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
>.
>

Tom
Tue Sep 14 10:24:15 CDT 2004

And sometimes it seems to help if you copy all but the very last paragraph
mark (which contains document formatting) into a new document. HTH T
"Allan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:19b001c46f61$d311b380$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> copy the text, paste and save them in a new word doc.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have a series of documents that suddenly refused to
> open in Word
> >2002/2003. When I try, the program just sits there and
> eventually has to be
> >killed through task manager. The documents open fine in
> WordPad, I save
> >them in .rtf and can open the new file in Word without
> difficulty, but when
> >I save them back as a .doc I can't open the new file.
> This behavior is
> >noted on 4 different machines (the files are shared on a
> server).
> >
> >Any suggestions?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >.
> >