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<blockquote data-quote="RalphClats" data-source="post: 1895169" data-attributes="member: 409128">Way back, I described the exec black box shown in the screen shot above. It shows for any file I select and try to open in Word. When I click on it, it shows the error message I quoted far above.Thank you, Randy, for the flash drive offer.I've developed a workaround that I should have recognized early on. I can open any of the files in TextEdit. I can then copy and paste the contents into a new Word .docx window and save with the original name. Then I can change and enlarge the typeface. I can highlight and delete all the extraneous characters and save the resulting text. That will be much easier with some docs than others. Some have extraneous characters mixed in with the meaningful text. Some separate blocks of text from others, not in the original order. Some scatter the text throughout the window. Some stop in mid-sentence and contain nothing else.By using this method, I can make sense of what's in the docs I can't open in Word. It's not a perfect solution, but it works for the most part.Thanks everybody. Obviously, I'm not a techie. Computer hardware and software are pretty much foreign territory for me. They sure make research and writing easier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RalphClats, post: 1895169, member: 409128"] Way back, I described the exec black box shown in the screen shot above. It shows for any file I select and try to open in Word. When I click on it, it shows the error message I quoted far above. Thank you, Randy, for the flash drive offer. I've developed a workaround that I should have recognized early on. I can open any of the files in TextEdit. I can then copy and paste the contents into a new Word .docx window and save with the original name. Then I can change and enlarge the typeface. I can highlight and delete all the extraneous characters and save the resulting text. That will be much easier with some docs than others. Some have extraneous characters mixed in with the meaningful text. Some separate blocks of text from others, not in the original order. Some scatter the text throughout the window. Some stop in mid-sentence and contain nothing else. By using this method, I can make sense of what's in the docs I can't open in Word. It's not a perfect solution, but it works for the most part. Thanks everybody. Obviously, I'm not a techie. Computer hardware and software are pretty much foreign territory for me. They sure make research and writing easier. [/QUOTE]

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