Documents have garbled text

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This only occurs on one machine at our office (approx. 300 systems). It is an IBM Netvista running Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 installed. The version of Word is 2000 9.0.6926 SP-3

When Word documents are created, saved and then reopened they have additional letters (always bjbjUqUq) at the beginning of the document and what looks like all kinds of control codes added to the end of the document

We have deinstalled and reinstalled Word at least 3 times.

If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
 
Hi Kirk,

It sounds like the documents are being opened with the Files of type option
in the File>Open dialog set to "Recover text from any file."

Set it back to "Word documents"

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.
Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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