word 2016 crashes when opening 97 2003 document

doc file, and a new name, Word is still unable to open the resulting file. If I then save the file within Open Office as a. The the whole document is there, without any corruption. I assumed that the document had been corrupted somehow, but the really wierd thing is that Outlook 2010 is able to preview the entire file, and I am able to open it without any difficulty in Open Office 3.

If I open Word first, and open the document from 'file - open' the same thing happens - 'opening in protected view' and then nothing. Although it cannot support all functionality of the Word application introduced since Word 2007, the DOC format has continued to be. doc extension and referred to here as DOC, was the default format used for documents in Microsoft Word from Word 97 (released in 1997) through Microsoft Office 2003. Word has not frozen, because clicking 'cancel' closes it down. The Microsoft Word Binary File format, with the. When I try to open the document by double clicking it, the Word Logo appears, saying 'opening in protected view', but then nothing more happens.

The document was originally created on a Windows Vista machine, the editing was done on a Windows 2007 machine, and I have tried to trouble shoot on my own computer, which runs Windows 2010 64, with Office 2010. Now, nobody - including the person who did the 'track changes' is able to open the document with the editing suggestions, and I'm trying to work out why. It was created in Word 2010, saved as Word 97-2003, emailed to a person with Word 2007, who made some editing suggestions using 'Track Changes', saved it without changing the file type, and emailed it back to the creator. I have a Word document which I cannot open, and which cannot be opened by two other people on different computers.

Word 2016 crashes when opening 97 2003 document