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<blockquote data-quote="RalphClats" data-source="post: 1893504" data-attributes="member: 409128">This problem is boggling my mind.I discovered I have two versions of Word: 16.24 and 16.53. The docs I want to retrieve open in neither. In .24, the list of docs shows each with a little dark box to the left of its name. When I click on the doc, the box shows in the adjacent window as a big dark box with &quot;exec&quot; in it. When I click to open, the error message saying &quot;. . . uses a file type that is blocked from opening this version&quot; comes up. I have many, many docs that that result applies to.Among them is a series of 18 letters. Letters 1-13 have the dark box and don't open as I wrote above. Letters 14-18 have a very light, differently shaped box next to them and do open.Then I closed .24, opened .53 and went to the same folder. All the docs' names that had dark boxes to the left of them in .24 are grayed out, the boxes are light shadows instead of dark, and when I click to open, nothing happens.The only docs that open are letters 14-18 as designated above. None of the old docs that won't open show extension designations. Letters 14-18 don't show extension designations either.Can scores if not hundreds of docs be corrupt? If the docs were locked, wouldn't a message come up saying that?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RalphClats, post: 1893504, member: 409128"] This problem is boggling my mind. I discovered I have two versions of Word: 16.24 and 16.53. The docs I want to retrieve open in neither. In .24, the list of docs shows each with a little dark box to the left of its name. When I click on the doc, the box shows in the adjacent window as a big dark box with "exec" in it. When I click to open, the error message saying ". . . uses a file type that is blocked from opening this version" comes up. I have many, many docs that that result applies to. Among them is a series of 18 letters. Letters 1-13 have the dark box and don't open as I wrote above. Letters 14-18 have a very light, differently shaped box next to them and do open. Then I closed .24, opened .53 and went to the same folder. All the docs' names that had dark boxes to the left of them in .24 are grayed out, the boxes are light shadows instead of dark, and when I click to open, nothing happens. The only docs that open are letters 14-18 as designated above. None of the old docs that won't open show extension designations. Letters 14-18 don't show extension designations either. Can scores if not hundreds of docs be corrupt? If the docs were locked, wouldn't a message come up saying that? [/QUOTE]

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