Re: Old Word documents

Subject: Re: Old Word documents
From: Jim Jones <han4yu3 -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Thorsten Konersmann <tk -at- documentation -dot- engineering>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:17:37 -0500


Thanks. He's able to open documents, it's just that they render in
unreadable form.

Emoto, thanks.

Jim Jones
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From: Thorsten Konersmann
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:13 AM
To: Jim Jones
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Old Word documents

If you try to open very old Word documents (Word 95 and older) in
recent Word versions, you'll get an error message due to security
restrictions. You need to disable the restrictions.
See [1]https://support.microsoft.com/en-ph/help/922849/opening-a-file-i
s-blocked-by-your-registry-policy-setting-or-file-bloc.

But it works. A few months ago, I was able to use Word 2016 to open a
Word 95 document I wrote around 2000 in high school. :-)
Is this what you meant?

On 23. Sep 2017, at 04:42, Jim Jones <[2]han4yu3 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

A friend has a bunch of old documents in Word, from the 90s. Can he
recover anything?
Jim Jones
[3]Atanet.org
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Editing, English
Mandarin Tutoring and Consulting
BA, MA, Linguistics
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