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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1893982" data-attributes="member: 190607">That is due to a feature that recent versions of Word don't have anymore.&nbsp; It is called &quot;Fast Save.&quot;&nbsp; In older versions of Word there was a feature, enabled by default, that made saves take less time.&nbsp; It did this by appending changes to the end of the document rather than saving the entire document.&nbsp; When viewed in a text editor, a good part of an old Word document will show up as a mix of code and text.&nbsp; That part of the document is all of the fast saves stored at the end of the document.&nbsp; It isn't corruption, it's how Word used to save documents.It may be that others here aren't having problems with their old Word documents because they disabled the Fast Save feature in Word back then.&nbsp; I know that I did, because disabling that feature made Word more stable.I gave you a link to what Microsoft says that you need to do to open those older documents.&nbsp; If you can't use that article to open your older Word documents, I strongly suspect that no one here is going to be able to help you.&nbsp; I recommend that you go on a Microsoft MVP Web site and have a Microsoft MVP assist you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1893982, member: 190607"] That is due to a feature that recent versions of Word don't have anymore. It is called "Fast Save." In older versions of Word there was a feature, enabled by default, that made saves take less time. It did this by appending changes to the end of the document rather than saving the entire document. When viewed in a text editor, a good part of an old Word document will show up as a mix of code and text. That part of the document is all of the fast saves stored at the end of the document. It isn't corruption, it's how Word used to save documents. It may be that others here aren't having problems with their old Word documents because they disabled the Fast Save feature in Word back then. I know that I did, because disabling that feature made Word more stable. I gave you a link to what Microsoft says that you need to do to open those older documents. If you can't use that article to open your older Word documents, I strongly suspect that no one here is going to be able to help you. I recommend that you go on a Microsoft MVP Web site and have a Microsoft MVP assist you. [/QUOTE]

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