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I used one of the Print to Winword options, but when I try to open the document I get gibberish rather than what I saw on the screen. What happened?

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I used one of the Print to Winword options, but when I try to open the document I get gibberish rather than what I saw on the screen. What happened?

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You printed the document in a particular version of Winword (the program included the version within the print command). You then tried to open the document with an earlier version of Winword, and there was an incompatibility. With Office 2003 and earlier versions, this problem usually did not arise; but Office 2007 is very exclusive. Documents it creates cannot open in earlier versions.