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"ghosty61" wrote in message
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I have word 97 on my computer and I am trying to open a document from my
"a"
drive. It shows it as a TMP file and I also see that its a Word 9.0
document.
When I try to open it up in Word97 its just shows lots of squares.
Any ideas??
ps Im a complete novice