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Subject:RE: Old Word documents From:"Weissman, Jessica R" <WeissmanJR -at- state -dot- gov> To:Jim Jones <han4yu3 -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:36:16 +0000
In some cases you have to open the document from Word rather than double-clicking the document icon without Word already being open.
I've opened Word4 and Word5 for Mac documents successfully in Word 2011 that way.
Jessica Weissman
Senior Technical Writer
ValidaTek, Inc.
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