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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1893498" data-attributes="member: 396914">Don't read more into the error that what it says. Like the others, I have Word and can open every document going back 16 years (I don't have any older than that handy). So what the error is saying is that your version of Word, as installed, is finding something "foreign" in the documents as it tries to open it. A file type that Word cannot handle. The extent may be .doc, but the file internals don't match what it expected. Like the others, I suspect there is something awry in your installation, if the files are not corrupt, or that the files are somehow corrupted, if your installation is correct. I'd do a reinstall of Word first, and if that doesn't work, try the various programs that claim to work on Word files. If they don't work, it has to be the files are somehow NOT formatted for Word after all.</blockquote>