Thread: [Solved] Can't open 1990 doc correctly
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Old 03-03-2019, 02:53 PM
Hans L Hans L is offline Windows 7 64bit Office 2013
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Originally Posted by macropod View Post
For something that old, you may need to use the Word (for DOS) converter for Word. See: http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm

Found no applicable app on that page, so I went to tab Word Pages and found an Add-in for batch-converting Word 97 docs to .docx. Unfortunately, the resulting docx was the same as I got by opening directly with Word 2010.


Now, the files I needed are not all that important, so I will just delete them; I have hard copies that seem to be the same as the rogue files, so I will scan.


Thanks for your help.


Hans L
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