WP8 gives Illegal Op trying to open .doc file

[herbc]

Wp8 is giving me an "Illegal Operation" message when I try to get it to open .doc files. Is it possible that WP8 is too old to handle the file format. That seems unlikely, since .doc should be pretty generic. Does anyone have any suggestions? I would very much appreciate any help, ideas, etc.

herbc

 

[Ronstid]

Herbc,
I've had this problem only when the .doc files were saved in Office XP format. Previous versions open fine.

 

[DonKlein]

It will depend upon what version of Word (Word 97, 2000, 2002) the .doc file was created with. Bottom line is that .doc is not as generic as it might seem. WordPerfect 9 has trouble with Word 2002, but is OK with prior
versions...

Don

 

[herbc]

Thanks, Don Klein and Ronstid, for the help. I do appreciate it.

I discovered after writing, that the .doc's I was having trouble with cause Wordpad to do the same thing. That did surprise me. It seems like Microsoft shot themselves in the foot with that one.

Ar there any other ways that come to mind for reading or converting those docs?

Herbc

 

[Ronstid]

Click on the link below to download free MS Office Viewers. If I'm not mistaken you can copy & paste from them.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asp