dont know how i ended up with a back up document, i think i was trying to hide files at some point. now i have a "microsoft word back up document" that i can't open. i am offered the choice of opening the document in WINDOWS (default),ms dos or other encoding but cant open it successfully.
any ideas how i could open and read it or change it back to a standard word document.
many thanks What is the extension of that file?hi, thanks for the reply, oddly i can't find a file extension on it. i have checked on the file list and in properties it just says "microsoft word back up document" for the file type and it says in properties that it opens in microsoft word (although it doesnt). It also offers a drop down menu to choose other applications - which i am tryingwith no success. When I open it in word this is the KIND of text i GET:


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1 manged to find the file extension and it was wbkYou'll need M$ Word to open that file. If you don't have it, you can try Word Viewer: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en
but I'm not sure, if it'll see backup files.
Give it a try.