Saved or Compressed Files

[Firedoc]

I have files which are backed up, have been compressed some dating 1998, whether created in MS Word or Adobe and some will open properly in Word, Excel or Adobe.

Those that do not open properly error message Not Supported File Type, however it is a PDF or DOC formated however MS Word will open and all I see is 5= 6ˆ I attached the file

Any suggestions on how resolve this issue?

Thank you, Doc

faxKay_Jewelers.doc

[submix8c]

Not so sure I want to download that... But may I suggest that you try getting the Office Converter Packages from MS. Chances are the files are in a WordPad or older MS-Word format. PDF documents should open in Adobe (with a warning about Older Format).

Also, for Win2000 and up, add this to the registry -

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Wordpad]
"EnableLegacyConverters"=dword:00000001

Edited March 9, 2009 by submix8c

[kahlil88]

OpenOffice should be able to open older M$ Office documents. Not sure what to do about the PDFs though...

[Tripredacus]

The attached document does indeed appear to be corrupted, or not a real Word Document. Viewed with Scite it is full of nulls. A normal Word doc shows different information in Scite. Also, it is not a virus, as it does not have any (valid or otherwise) PE headers. OpenOffice Writer shows it to be full of # symbols, but did prompt to convert the file. The default options did not work. I'd say this one is lost.

[DigeratiPrime]

Opened with a hex editor, it is completely filled with zeros AKA junk.