Re: PROBLEM: 12.1 version of Word 2008 will not open WinWord .doc

In article <jemcgimpsey-DCF9EA.08274020052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, JE
McGimpsey <jemcgimpsey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> But, as has been previously mentioned, that's largely irrelevant. Since 
> the third-party bug affects NEW do***ents that they touch, most of the 
> times we've seen the problem have not been with pre-Office98 docs..


I beg to offer up my scenario which is clearly different from yours..   

If you've been using one of the "third-party" applications since the
pre-Office 98 days (and Eudora has been around for about a decade now,
I think, and was -- at one point -- considered one of the "premiere"
Mac E-mail programs...)

You'd likely have a significant number of files received via e-mail
(flaged as "Microsoft Word 1.x-5.x do***ent" files) -- those have type
WDBN and Creator MSWD.

I also have Word do***ent files (openable by Word 12.1) that have type: 
"W6BN" (a Word 6.0/95 do***ent) with creator MSWD and no extension. 

Were these e-mailed to me 8 years ago?  Probably...  For all I know,
they came on floppy disk...


And those can be opened by "File --> Open" -- so they are valid word
files according to 12.1, but not double-clickable.


And that's just on *my* computer where I have no do***ents later than
1997 (my home computer probably does...)   This isn't touching the
faculty computers that their do***ents have been moved from
computer-to-computer from even longer than that...

- Steve