OK now the problem is that my copy of MS Word is so old that Win 7 doesn't support it ... in fact, the .doc files don't even appear on the new computer. I never upgraded because I was very happy, thank you, with Word 97...

I have heard tell of free versions of Word that would recognize and find the older ones and allow me to open them...

WHen the old computer crashed and I took the external drive in for
recovery the one that was attached to the old Dell clobbered a lot..

A previous external drive was readable and I did recover quite a bit but
I can't see the doc files on the new external drive - when I go to my
documents I get the nasty message "no supported files - folder empty"

so what do I do? some of the doc files are pretty important - some of them, fortunately, are on an older external drive , but I'd love to be able to access them on my new bus.

One thing I thought of was to change the .doc's that were inportant for content but not so much for appearance, to plain text which, I would think, I could then open in wordpad. but really id like to be able to see my original .doc fiels on the new machine even if I can't open them
on it.

T i a
ann



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