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Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc
You could add it and then create the described entry.
Have you tried simply uninstalling the 973904 update? This will also put back the older mswrd632.wpc file that the update replaced. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Derek" / wrote in message ... I tried to edit the registry as described under 973904 but there is not a \wordpad directory under applets. --- frmsrcurl: http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public...r-mswrd632.wpc |
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Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc
Remove the security update (MS09-073) that caused the problem.
-- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "InfinitiDC" wrote in message ... Thanks for the advice. However, I did not have wordpad in the subdirectory-any other suggestions? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:53:10 -0000, "Terry Farrell" wrote: See http://blogs.technet.com/wordonenote...6-0-files.aspx This article asks me to make a Registry change. I'd really rather not do that. Is there any other fix? This article says it may be caused by a security update. I suggest MSFT needs to send out another update to fix the update. And then actually do a little testing BEFORE they ship the updates. This is the second time in a year or so that an update broke something that I know of. The error only seems to happen when I open a .doc document. I'm running Office 2007. Sam, did you read the KnowledgeBase article linked from that page? This isn't an error, it's deliberate; Microsoft wants to prevent you from using the old WordPad converter because it isn't secure. The registry change is intended for administrators who consider using the converter more important than closing the security hole, at least temporarily. Also, because it's a deliberate change, there is never going to be "another fix" for the security update. But your problem is a bit different from what the articles describe. You're trying to open a .doc file in Word 2007, which should have nothing to do with WordPad or the old converter. What's happened is that Windows has associated the .doc extension with WordPad instead of Word. If the security patch hadn't been applied, the document would have opened in WordPad (which can also read the .doc format), and you would have been complaining about that instead. ;-) Run the winword /r command as described in http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...gisterWord.htm and see if that fixes the problem. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. . |
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Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc
That was the very first help I sent them too. So surely they have followed
and uninstalled it already? Terry "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Remove the security update (MS09-073) that caused the problem. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "InfinitiDC" wrote in message ... Thanks for the advice. However, I did not have wordpad in the subdirectory-any other suggestions? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:53:10 -0000, "Terry Farrell" wrote: See http://blogs.technet.com/wordonenote...6-0-files.aspx This article asks me to make a Registry change. I'd really rather not do that. Is there any other fix? This article says it may be caused by a security update. I suggest MSFT needs to send out another update to fix the update. And then actually do a little testing BEFORE they ship the updates. This is the second time in a year or so that an update broke something that I know of. The error only seems to happen when I open a .doc document. I'm running Office 2007. Sam, did you read the KnowledgeBase article linked from that page? This isn't an error, it's deliberate; Microsoft wants to prevent you from using the old WordPad converter because it isn't secure. The registry change is intended for administrators who consider using the converter more important than closing the security hole, at least temporarily. Also, because it's a deliberate change, there is never going to be "another fix" for the security update. But your problem is a bit different from what the articles describe. You're trying to open a .doc file in Word 2007, which should have nothing to do with WordPad or the old converter. What's happened is that Windows has associated the .doc extension with WordPad instead of Word. If the security patch hadn't been applied, the document would have opened in WordPad (which can also read the .doc format), and you would have been complaining about that instead. ;-) Run the winword /r command as described in http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...gisterWord.htm and see if that fixes the problem. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. . |
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Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc
Thanks, Graham. I added the wordpad directory as you suggested and the entry as described in 973904. I can now mailmerge correctly from Outlook.
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Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc
Doug,
I have removed KB973904 which you requested and still having the issue. I cannot open a 97-2003 file in my office 2007. I can though go file, open and choose recover text from any file and it will open but adds a bunch of characters. I even tried open office which someone requested might work but it didn't. I did not have the registry entry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion \Applets\Wordpad I did create it and changed it from 0 to 1 and it would open but with alot of characters added to make it really non readable. I even tried winword /r and still no luck. Has there been a fix for this???????????????? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Remove the security update (MS09-073) that caused the problem. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "InfinitiDC" wrote in message ... Thanks for the advice. However, I did not have wordpad in the subdirectory-any other suggestions? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:53:10 -0000, "Terry Farrell" wrote: See http://blogs.technet.com/wordonenote...6-0-files.aspx This article asks me to make a Registry change. I'd really rather not do that. Is there any other fix? This article says it may be caused by a security update. I suggest MSFT needs to send out another update to fix the update. And then actually do a little testing BEFORE they ship the updates. This is the second time in a year or so that an update broke something that I know of. The error only seems to happen when I open a .doc document. I'm running Office 2007. Sam, did you read the KnowledgeBase article linked from that page? This isn't an error, it's deliberate; Microsoft wants to prevent you from using the old WordPad converter because it isn't secure. The registry change is intended for administrators who consider using the converter more important than closing the security hole, at least temporarily. Also, because it's a deliberate change, there is never going to be "another fix" for the security update. But your problem is a bit different from what the articles describe. You're trying to open a .doc file in Word 2007, which should have nothing to do with WordPad or the old converter. What's happened is that Windows has associated the .doc extension with WordPad instead of Word. If the security patch hadn't been applied, the document would have opened in WordPad (which can also read the .doc format), and you would have been complaining about that instead. ;-) Run the winword /r command as described in http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...gisterWord.htm and see if that fixes the problem. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. . |
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Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc
"Danny" wrote: Thanks for the link - I'm having the same problem. I tried to make the registry change described in the article, but did not have Wordpad at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion \Applets\Wordpad Have you seen anything else that helped with this problem? --- frmsrcurl: http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public...r-mswrd632.wpc . I have removed KB973904 which you requested and still having the issue. I cannot open a 97-2003 file in my office 2007. I can though go file, open and choose recover text from any file and it will open but adds a bunch of characters. I even tried open office which someone requested might work but it didn't. I did not have the registry entry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion \Applets\Wordpad I did create it and changed it from 0 to 1 and it would open but with alot of characters added to make it really non readable. I even tried winword /r and still no luck. Has there been a fix for this???????????????? |
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Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc
Don't believe everything you read. Wordpad was/is not my default for .doc
files. Word 2007 is. This error came up for me in Microsoft Accounting when I tried to print to my Word Template for my invoices. I applied this fix by modifying the registry........I added the Wordpad key under applets and then added the AllowConversion and now all is well. |
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Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc
I had the similar problem, with a 3rd party software program called PPM that
uses Word. I re-installed Word and problem solved. The patch 973904 is still on the computer. -- Rich "Josh" wrote: "Danny" wrote: Thanks for the link - I'm having the same problem. I tried to make the registry change described in the article, but did not have Wordpad at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion \Applets\Wordpad Have you seen anything else that helped with this problem? --- frmsrcurl: http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public...r-mswrd632.wpc . I have removed KB973904 which you requested and still having the issue. I cannot open a 97-2003 file in my office 2007. I can though go file, open and choose recover text from any file and it will open but adds a bunch of characters. I even tried open office which someone requested might work but it didn't. I did not have the registry entry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion \Applets\Wordpad I did create it and changed it from 0 to 1 and it would open but with alot of characters added to make it really non readable. I even tried winword /r and still no luck. Has there been a fix for this???????????????? |
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Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc
Hello Josh,
Did you try simply going back to a system restore point? This worked fine for us. Flip "Josh" schreef in bericht ... Doug, I have removed KB973904 which you requested and still having the issue. I cannot open a 97-2003 file in my office 2007. I can though go file, open and choose recover text from any file and it will open but adds a bunch of characters. I even tried open office which someone requested might work but it didn't. I did not have the registry entry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion \Applets\Wordpad I did create it and changed it from 0 to 1 and it would open but with alot of characters added to make it really non readable. I even tried winword /r and still no luck. Has there been a fix for this???????????????? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Remove the security update (MS09-073) that caused the problem. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "InfinitiDC" wrote in message ... Thanks for the advice. However, I did not have wordpad in the subdirectory-any other suggestions? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:53:10 -0000, "Terry Farrell" wrote: See http://blogs.technet.com/wordonenote...6-0-files.aspx This article asks me to make a Registry change. I'd really rather not do that. Is there any other fix? This article says it may be caused by a security update. I suggest MSFT needs to send out another update to fix the update. And then actually do a little testing BEFORE they ship the updates. This is the second time in a year or so that an update broke something that I know of. The error only seems to happen when I open a .doc document. I'm running Office 2007. Sam, did you read the KnowledgeBase article linked from that page? This isn't an error, it's deliberate; Microsoft wants to prevent you from using the old WordPad converter because it isn't secure. The registry change is intended for administrators who consider using the converter more important than closing the security hole, at least temporarily. Also, because it's a deliberate change, there is never going to be "another fix" for the security update. But your problem is a bit different from what the articles describe. You're trying to open a .doc file in Word 2007, which should have nothing to do with WordPad or the old converter. What's happened is that Windows has associated the .doc extension with WordPad instead of Word. If the security patch hadn't been applied, the document would have opened in WordPad (which can also read the .doc format), and you would have been complaining about that instead. ;-) Run the winword /r command as described in http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...gisterWord.htm and see if that fixes the problem. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. . |
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Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc
"Flip" wrote: Hello Josh, Did you try simply going back to a system restore point? This worked fine for us. Flip FLIP, We cant do a system restore on our domain as its blocked by group policy so there is no way for us to try that. There must be another way though to get this working but it seems i have tried everything. Josh |
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