Windows 10: Ever since I got my new Microsoft 365 I am not able to retrieve my old word documents to...

Ever since I added my new Microsoft 365 account, I have not been able to edit any of my old Word Documents.

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Can word processor documents be sent to desktop vs Documents folder

Sure, you can save them wherever you want.

In my old Office 2007, I open Word, click on File (button, top left) the Word Options button at bottom.





Then click on the Save option at left and change the Default file location:




I don't know the steps for other versions of Office but it should be similar.

You can also use the File, Save as each time and select where you want to save a document.

 

Folder Freeze when trying to click on a Word Document. HELP

Hi there,

I came across a very weird bug/issue.

Use Case

Step 1: Create a word document on Desktop and name it TestFreeze

Step 2: Test that you can open the word document and write something like 'Testing freeze folder' ->save it

Step 3: Create a folder on Desktop and name it FreezeMe

Step 4: Copy 'TestFreeze' document in the 'FreezeMe' folder

Step 5: Open the 'FreezeMe' folder and select/click 'TestFreeze' document

Result: Folder Not Responding

Additional Information

I have run some tests and it does not matter:

• if it is a new or old Microsoft word file
• if the document has content in it or not
• if it has a long/short name or special characters
• it does not matter the folder or the name of the folder in which you put the file in

I also tried with an excel file and seems that I do not experience the same issue.

Microsoft version: 16.0.9330.2073

Windows version: 10.0.17134 Build 17134 with all updates up to date

If there is anything else I can provide to help sort this out, please do let me know.

Opened to any suggestions on how to fix this, as it is very frustrating.

Thanks

 

Retrieving all text from DOC files that are NOT MS Word

Could these be really old Word files? Really old .doc files from Word for DOS can't be open in current versions of Word. As a test I created files in a couple old versions of Word for DOS. Here is what happened when I tried to open them with Word 2019. Word3-5DOS.doc

Word6DOS.doc

I then went to this web site and converted these files to Word3-5DOS.docx and Word6DOS.docx. Word 2019 was then able to open the converted files. FreeConvert DOC to WORD Converter - FreeConvert.com