Ms Word 2003 Converter Error
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“Cannot load Word for Windows 6.0 files” ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Navdeep BawaDecember 10, 20094 Share 0 0 Problem: - When attempting to
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open a Word document, users are getting one of following error word 2013 cannot start the converter wpft532 1) Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc 2) Cannot load
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Word for Windows 6.0 files Cause: - This issue may be started happening after you applied following security update. You may be trying to open a file has http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/officeversion_other-word/error-message-word-cannot-start-the-converter/ce3a65ce-fba1-4c16-af9c-d4131a281527 the ".doc" file name extension, but the content is a plain text file or another kind of file that is not a Microsoft Word binary file. Check follow KB for detail and updated information. 973904 MS09-073: Description of the security update for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003: December 8, 2009 Resolution: - The registry https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wordonenotesupport/2009/12/10/when-opening-the-word-document-users-are-getting-error-word-cannot-start-the-converter-mswrd632-wpc-or-cannot-load-word-for-windows-6-0-files/ fix for this issue is already provided in the KB 973904. Following solution is the updated solution which is provided by Microsoft Word Team. You can use the following steps for the resolution. Update:- Fix-IT solution for this registry changes is released. Check KB973904 WARNING : If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk. To resolve this issue, an affected user can unregister the mswrd632 converter by editing the registry as follows:
Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools \Text Converters\Import\MSWord6.wpc On the Edit menu, click Delete. Click Yes. Exit Registry Editor. This change will effectively unregister the converter and disable it for third-party applications and for Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office will use its own text converters to open these kinds of files. ===================================Converter MSWRD632.WPC" Error Recently, I had a user in my office get the following error when trying to open a Word document: Word cannot http://helpdeskgeek.com/office-tips/word-cannot-start-the-converter-mswrd632-wpc/ start the converter mswrd632.wpc. Whenever the user clicked the OK button, it would simply pop back up. What was really weird is that if she clicked on the red X http://www.wincert.net/microsoft-office/mswrd632-wpc-word-cannot-start-the-converter-error/ button, the document would open just fine! Strange! The user was running Office 2007 and getting this error. After doing some research, we came across a few possible solutions. In cannot start this post, I’ll list them out here. Method 1 – Unregister Text Converter Basically, in Windows XP SP2 and above and Windows Server 2003 SP1 and above, if you have a plain text file or another kind of file that is not a Microsoft Word file, but has a .doc extension, you will get this error. This can also cannot start the happen if you are opening a really old document created by Word for Windows 6.0 or Word 97 documents. In this case, you can disable the mswrd632 converter so you don’t get this error. The files will then be opened by the Microsoft Office text converters. You can unregister this converter by going to Start, then run and typing regedit. Then navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Text Converters\Import\MSWord6.wpc Right-click on the MSWord6.wpc key in the left hand pane and choose Delete. If you have a Word 97 document, you should still be able to open it in Word 2003 or 2007. However, you will not be able to open these files in WordPad anymore. You’ll get an error like: Cannot load Word for Windows 6.0 files If you really have to use WordPad to open Word 6.0/95 files, you can re-enable the Word 6.0/95 for Windows and Macintosh to RFT converter. Open the registry and go to the following keys: For 32-bit versions of Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Applets\Wordpad For Microsoft Windows on Windows 64 (WOW) mode HKEY_LOC
280 mswrd632.wpc Word cannot start the converter error by Nik · Published December 16, 2009 · Updated February 3, 2016 You may receive the following error: Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc This error appears because of the security update for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 on December 8, 2009. You may experience a mail merge issues write files are parsed but no message is shown. To resolve this issue, an affected user can unregister the mswrd632 converter by editing the registry as follows: Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Text Converters\Import\MSWord6.wpc On the Edit menu, click Delete. Click Yes. Exit Registry Editor. NOTE: For x64 systems above path is slightly changed: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Applets\Wordpad This change will effectively unregister the mswrd632 converter and disable it for third-party applications and for Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office will use its own text converters to open these kinds of files. You can also fix this issue with applying the registry fix, but that is a less secure way according to Microsoft, as this fix actually creates ‘AllowConversion‘ key in the new ‘Wordpad‘ subfolder. (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Wordpad) Download REG fix There is another way to solve this issue by copying the MSWrd632.wpc file from another computer that doesn't have this issue. Make sure that this file comes from a trusted source on your network. This file can be found on the following path: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\TextConv UPDATE: Above fix was not helpful to some of our readers, so Thomas Lewis offered another suggestion which should also help. Go to Tools > Options > General (Tab) in Word 2003 And check “Confirm Conversion at Open” When you next try to open the document it will prompt you with a list to convert from. Choose Word 2007 and your document will open. Have in mind that you will have to unregister mswrd632 first, which is noted