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Word files were encrypted while on a Win XP PC. PC Died and data was "backed up", Windows 7 was installed. Now the files are all gibberish. Am I screwed?

Two of my teachers gave me .doc files for something or another, and both of these files have a strange problem I've never seen before: Microsoft Word Viewer has apparently decided that it doesn't know what to do with certain text elements, and so it decides to display them in the MaplePi font...

Hello and thank you for any help that anyone can give me. anyways, the problem is that when i go to microsoft word or powerpoint or excel, i press the "open" button and nothing happens. absolutely nothing as in no window will pop up that has the c: drive similar to when you run windows...

Is there a way to change MS Word file icons in Windows 7 x86. Since i know it has been possible on XP under view file options menu, and the same option is not available in 7?

In November 2010, Microsoft released the first Security Bulletin (Link Removed due to 404 Error) against an Office 2010 component, in this case Microsoft Word. Approximately 6 months had elapsed since Office 2010 launched in May and while it's good for such a widely used product to be available...

I have no idea what happened. I went to get coffee and when I came back to my computer none of my files or applications would open. If I tried to click on anything the side by side conriguration error would pop up. When I tried to open Microsoft Word or Powerpoint up it says Windows Installer...

1- On windows xp, it comes with moviemaker and you can capture from device on it, but on windows 7 it doesnt even come with it and when u download it you still cant capture from device on it. 2- I got a new laptop for college and it has windows 7 on it, but i need microsoft word to do papers and...

Hi, I just downloaded MS Office 2010. Now, all the office icons - Excel, PowerPoint etc ..... and all the icons in Start menu and my desktop such as Norton 360, iTunes, Quicktime Player, Calculator etc. show up as the Microsoft Word icon. In other words all the original icons are...

I have what I would call “Ghost Files” in my Documents directory. These were left over after I moved the original document to another location and I can’t seem to be able to delete them. They are a combination of MS Word documents, video or Excel items. The pop-up box tells me “This is no...

Dear All, I don't know enough about computers to know if this is a software, hardware or what problem. The problem is that the text cursor (caret) - not the mouse arrow - moves to the left when I'm typing. Sometimes I can't even force it to the right. This happens in Internet Explorer, Word...

Hi, A few quick questions on Word. We recently built a new PC that is running the 32 bit version of 7 Home Prem. We moved a bunch of word docs from an older maching running XP Home generated in, I believe, Word 2001(if there is such an animal...it was pre-installed on a Dell we purchased new...

I started MS Word and keeping it open, when i try to uninstall it in Win 7, it does NOT give message "File in Use" and uninstall MS Word. Here the main concern is Why the "File in Use" message is not displayed before uninstalling the software???? This behaviour happens when you uninstall any...

I cannot save a file on any program. Microsoft word, wordpad, notepad whatever i click save as or save whatever and NOTHING:mad: happens. thats the first thing, Second thing is I've tried to upload photos online, facebook, photobucket, picnik, whatever anything and i click "browse" or "choose...

The Windows 7 Start Menu search function seems to work quite well for most programs. I type "wo" and "Microsoft Word is highlighted on the top of the list. I type "ex" and Microsoft Excel is at the top of the list, followed by Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer. But try and run regedit.exe...

Well I don't know what I have done to make this possible, so I need some help to restore it to the basic non kursive. Hope you know the answer, because its kind of innoying to have kursive all the time. Thanks in advance

Work PC: Windows XP, Dual Core E5200 2.5Ghz, 2GB RAM Home Desktop: see Link Removed The PC at work, although much slower than my desktop, seems to launch basic programmes like Google Chrome and MS Word much faster than my faster home desktop. I have no idea why. Originally, I thought it was...

I tried to execute a mailmerge in windows 7, using Microsoft Outlook 2007 (which was also set as the default program for whatever it is capable of, including MAPI, using the \default programs\ dialoge in the configuration.) and MS Word 2007. Although both windows/winword and outlook do not...

Hi I was wondering if anyone can help. My TB hard drive is slowing down windows... I bought me a 1 terabyte Samsung hard drive from esquire for R648 quite a bargain. But ever since I've installed it stuff start taking longer and maybe it’s just me it’s not much of a lagg but like on a...

Windows 7 seems to have eliminated a standard feature in previous versions...showing the complete list of files in a folder you are saving a file to. This is not about searching for files. This is when you are actually saving a document. In XP, when you save a word document, every word file in...

The taskbar icons (the ones I've pinned to the taskbar) for MS Word and MS Excel are showing broken/not found icons. They were there for some time and the a few days ago showed broken. The icons in the system menu display correctly. How do I correct this? Thanks, MauiNick