Word 2007 cannot open old doc files anymore

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Published on 2010-01-16T13:50:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 23:13 UTC
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Since last week I am unable to open old doc files with Microsoft Word 2007.

Whenever I try that I first get a warning about converters being a security issue. (I can disable that in the registry).

After accepting (or disabling) this warning, however, I just get the following error message:

Unglütiger Datentyp

(Word 6.0/95 für Windows & Macintosh

which means in English:

Invalid document type

(Word 6.0/95 for Windows & Macintosh

I tried to goolge both the German and the translated error message but did not find anything related.

The files in question can be opened by other users for the windows terminal server without problems.

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