Thanks Mart,

If nothing else you saved me hunting for a copy of the same reply! vbg

Unfortunately the WD 2000 viewer is no longer to be found at that URL and
the more recent Word 2003 viewer doesn't run on Win 9x systems. Hopefully
a copy of the WD2000 viewer can be found elsewhere. Ah, I've found what
looks like a genuine copy of the Word 97 viewer at
http://www.5star-shareware.com/Windo...rd-viewer.html
--
Mike M


Mart wrote:

Solution credited to Mike M (MS-MVP)

"It appears that you are trying to open a document written using a
later version of MS Word than can be opened with WordPad. For
details see MS KB 276337 - "WD2000: Problems Opening Word Document in
WordPad" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=276337).

"Rather that trying to use WordPad you might want to consider
downloading and
installing the free Microsoft Word viewer"
(http://office.microsoft.com/download...d97vwr32.aspx).