Can't Open Old Word Docs In Vista
Aug 26, 2008I'm unable to open old word documents (i.e. Word 2000, Word 2003) on Vista's Word V. 9.
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Received Word Docs, Not Able To Open
Jun 9, 2008I have received several word docs and I am not able to open them. I have windows vista and just installed microsoft office home & student. I have tried several things but nothing is working.
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Mar 23, 2008I have a problem finding Word 2007 files from the Search field in Windows Explorer. Example: I have a file named "test.docx" in "My Documents", and I can see that file right in the Windows Explorer window. However, if I type, say ".docx", or "test", in the Search field in the top right-hand corner of Explorer, the search comes up empty. I can,however, get the search function to find the file if I: use the Search item on the Start Menu use the "Advanced Search" options in Windows Explorer, and have it search all indexed locations use the "Advanced Search" options in Windows Explorer, and have it search in non-indexed locations, hidden and system files
This problem only seems to exist with .docx files, so this may actually be an issue of the Office 2007 indexer rather than Vista. It looks like the Word indexer does not properly store the location information of the file. Oh, and the problem I have may or may not be related to the fact that on my system I have (of course) relocated the My Documents folder to a separate partition. Are others seeing this, too? Is there a fix for this?
Word Crashes On Open
Feb 16, 2009Word 2007 (on vista 32 bit) crashed this morning. It won't open again without crashing. It opens the window, I can see that it is asking me to open the recued document, on the left side, but then it crashes... looks for a problem... nothing... then it says "An Unknown error has occured" - but the litle window has "Endnote x1" in the header. - I have Endnote X1, obviously, and they don't work wonderfully together, but never this kind of problem. I've installed all the recent service packs, in the last few days. Word updates itself I'm pretty sure. Explorer crashes all the time, I think that it adobe related though *sigh*.
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Mar 23, 2008When I receive a Word document as an attachment in an email Windows Mail will not let me open it. The file is in the email and has the proper icon and file extension. When I try to open it it asks if I want to Save or Open the document; I choose Open. The I get an error message: "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel." I can save the attachment to my desktop and then open it no problem but I don't think that I should have to do that. I should be able to double click on any attachment and it should open with the proper program, right?
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Apr 3, 2008I use word 2007 and have recently installed Vista. Since doing this people can't open my word attachments.
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Apr 15, 2008I reinstalled Vista and then updated with SP1 when I try to open an email attachment that is a Word .doc file it will not open and gives an error message that the file type does not have an application associated with it. The .doc file extension is associated with Word and I have re-associated it several times. The file will open if I save it elsewhere or drag it to my desktop and then open it. Is there something in the registry or elsewhere.
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Nov 7, 2008I cannot open any email attachments no matter the format (word, jpg, etc.).
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Unable To Open Word By Clicking On Document Files
Jul 3, 2008I have installed Works Suite 2006 in my Vista Home Premium computer. Everything works fine apart from Word 2002. I am unable to open Word by clicking on document files. If I double click on a document file in Explorer nothing happens. If I right click and select Open With, and then click on wordicon, nothing happens. I am also unable to launch Word from the Works Suite program launcher. I can open Word, no problem, and it appears to work fine, but to edit a document I have to search for it from within Word, which is often inconvient. I have un-installed the suite, and re-installed it, but the problem still persists.
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Jul 29, 2009I ws workin on my Acer laptop with windows vista last evenin and I ws online surfin thru websites. i clickd on an email id on the web page by mistake.. so it tried to open Outlook to send an email. I hadnt used Outlook b4 on my lap so d setup opend and said tat outlook ws gona b installed. i closd tat dialog box cz i din wan to run dat setup. iv don tat many times b4 too. i continued surfin and in anoder 2 mins i clickd on anoder email id so d same dialog box popped up n i closed it again. i had a Word document opened and was copy-pastin stuf frm it to my email msg. i needed to open anoder file so clickd on d word document on my desktop.. and it said "preparin to instal ms word". i dint understand wt hapnd cz i ws already wrkn wit word and ws wonderin y d setup file of word had opened. i closed it and tried to open anoder word document and d same thin hapnd. i ws realllly surprised and clickd on the word doc which ws already open and tried to type sumthn.. it ws wrkn. i opened a new empty doc frm d doc which ws already open and it wrkd. den i closd the docs dat were open and clickd on ms word and dat setup dialogue box opend up again and word dint wrk no matter wt i tried. i ws really surprised and shockd cz evthin ws wrkn perfectly wel n within 2 mins my ms word seemd to b uninstalld! i closed internet explorer and the oder pdfs tat were open n tried to restart my lap. aftr restartin it i clickd on word n d same installation dialogue box came up. very surprisd i tried to restart again and dis time i cudnt even get into d login page.. sum error came up which said dat dere mite b sum software or hardware problem so i cudnt even gt the login page. dere wer 2 options available-
1. windows startup repair (recommended)
2. restart windows normally
i clickd on "restart windows normally" and a blank screen came up n js sht dwn in around 30 seconds. i clickd on the power button again n got the same 2 options frm which i selectd "startup repair".. d same blank screen came n d lap sht dwn in around 20 seconds. tried again and tis time the lap sht dwn b4 i cud get dose options. totally shockd i thot i needed to giv d lap sum rest cz i had been wrkn on it for a long time. i din tuch t for d nex 20 hrs and den tried again. i cud get the two options and i clickd on start windows normally and a blank screen came up and lap sht dwn. i tried again n selectd startup repair n it went thru d repair and said dat "system files corruped".. "boot error" .. "windows explorer not wrkn" etc.
Disappearance Of Option To Open New Word Doc When Right-clicking Dektop, And Choosing "New"
Apr 10, 2010In desperation, after not getting the answer on the Vista.Genearl group, I'm posting this to as many groups as I think may be able to help as I suspect that the problem could occur in any MS operating system and is not Vista specific. It might just even be associated with MS Word itself.
The problem is as stated in the subject. After I did a factory reformat of a pre-installed Vista Home Premium on an Acer Aspire L3600 and re-installed my apps, including MS Office 2007 Plus I found that when I right-click the desktop and choose "New", most of options to open a new folder, shortcut, Bitmap Image and documents in the Office suite are there except for MS Word. It used to be there, now it's not and as far as I can see it is the only one missing.
In fact Word shows up when I installed MS Office on my wife's Dell laptop as a test. I've un- and re-installed the entire Office suite to no avail. How has this happened, but more importantly, how can I get it back in the list? It's the feature of the right-click procedure, other than opening a new folder, that I find the most useful.
Backup And Restore: "Word Cannot Open The Existing File"
Mar 23, 2008I purchased a WD 500 GB external, and used windows backup. It worked fine. I was planing to return my laptop for repairs because it was making funny sounds, so i deleted all my documents/music/pictures and so on. When i went to restore everything, I got a pretty nasty problem.
everything was restored, but stored on the F: drive, which is the external. when ever i would start up the computer, without the external plugged in, it would give me an error saying that the desktop wasn't found and that it was in different folder. there was also a problem with Microsoft office, which when ever i would open Word 2007 it would say "the office open xml file Normal.dotm cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents."
then it would give me a second error message "Word cannot open the existing file. (normal) i would also get this same error when opening up any existing word file. when i would write things up and then go to save it, it says that "word has insufficient memory. do you want to save document one as rescued document 2?" i have a similar problem with itunes
Folders & Docs Disappeared
Mar 23, 2008so the other day I accidentally messed up something with the properties of all of my folders.... In the attributes I must have clicked on something, not sure what, but now I'm missing a great deal of information.... I tried doing a system restore, but it has only brought back a few things but not everything....
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Feb 27, 2009Accidentally deleted this folder from C:, and tho I have the files for it on D: (the green 'documents' folder), I cannot access them by clicking start/documents.
How do I fix this blunder ?
Also, probably a post here somewhere, but I tried to do a system restore in the hope that would fix it, but have no restore points...thought this was done automatically?
Converting Word 97-2003 Document To Word 2007
May 17, 2008I use Vista and want to know how to open a file that was originally in Word 97? 2003 to open in Vista Word 2007 and how to convert that file to the Word 2007 format. When I searched Microsoft on this issue, it said to click on Start and look for the word convert. When I did that I could not find the work convert.
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May 12, 2008Trying to open a Word file, get message "Windows can't find so-and-so file". Similarly, trying to open it programmatically in Excel VBA, I get the same message. But if I right-click and select "Open with" and pick Microsoft Windows, it works.
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Mar 12, 2009When I create word documents in vista, they are always saved as .docx files. When I or others open these documents on PCs they are gibberish. How can you save a word file as a .doc in vista?
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Vista Not Able To Open PPS Files
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I have been unzipping files in Vista with no problem, after the download of AVG 9 I am unable to open them.
When I right click on the file I do not get Extract all in the list.
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