Incoming attachment documents in MS Word not readable

Just purchased new Mac with 10.5 operating system. Had contents of hard drive transferred to new computer. Incoming attachments in MS Word are not readable - letters and symbols interspersed with readable parts of document. Had an older version of Word on old computer but no evidence that it was transfered to new computer. Don't know if it would have worked with 10.5 anyway? Also a problem that MS documents now on new computer can not be read. Any suggestions?
Hutch

If they're relatively plain word files (not a lot of formatting and extra stuff in them) you can try opening them with TextEdit, though its odd that MS Word is not recognizing the formatting of a Word document. What version of Word are you using? Do the attachments look like word documents (with .doc suffixes and proper icons, or are they just blank pages with a tab)?

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