Are you sure the documents are genuine.
Are you sure you do not have a virus
If you e-mail them to a friend, can they open them
There are word and excel clones on the WEB, try one of those
Create a document in word and e-mail it to yourself can u read it
Do you have a word 95, that cannot open word 2000 upwards
Try opening with the clipboard viewer.


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