Thursday, December 8, 2011

Word experienced an error trying to open the file

Thanks to author @ http://blog.techgalaxy.net/archives/3042

the problem is occurred while opening doc file (created in 2007) in office 2010.

the trick to open the file is


  1. Open Word 2010.
  2. Click File, Options, Trust Center, Trust Center Settings.
  3. Select the Protect View option.
  4. Deselect all the Protected View options. You may not have to disable Data Execution Prevention mode. Experiment with the various options until you get the results.

3 comments:

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    Hey I had the same issue with my computer. I wasted my time on it for

    many days but finally I got a solution from this link
    http://www.microsoftliveassist.com/word-experienced-an-error/

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  2. Hey I had the same issue with my computer. I wasted my time on it for
    many days but finally I got a solution from this link
    http://www.microsoftliveassist.com/word-experienced-an-error/

    ReplyDelete
  3. Thank you Sanjay for taking time to comment. I will give a try later.

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