I can't open the file in word because it is corrupt and cannot be opened, what can i do?

I had a Word .doc that became corrupted while SpellChecking an entire vintage book that had been OCRed. Crashed every time I opened it in Word. I was able to open, strip off the Word Header & Footer (invisible), spell check and save as a plain text file with TextWrangler - BBEdit's Baby Brother > http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ - no Word-ish formatting, but the data was there in total.
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I just download mountain lion to my mac, now microsoft office suite doesn't work....it says 'you can't open the application 'microsoft word' because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. What does this mean and what do I have to do to fix it??

I just download mountain lion to my mac, now microsoft office suite doesn't work....it says 'you can't open the application 'microsoft word' because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. What does this mean and what do I have to do to fix it?? HELP!!

Install Snow Leopard on another boot partition, or upgrade Microsoft Office to a newer version, or use any number of better alternatives. Some of them are free.
Consider
LibreOffice (donation-supported)
NeoOffice ($10)
OpenOffice (completely free)
In addition to the above I also recommend Apple's Pages ($19.99). I use OpenOffice and Pages and have been completely Microsoft - free for over a year now. Life is better without Microsoft.

When I try and open a word document I received the following message: "You cant open the application Microsoft Word because PoerPC applications are no longer supported". What is up with that?

When I try and open a word document I received the following message: "You cant open the application Microsoft Word because PoerPC applications are no longer supported". What is up with that?

Here is a post that I assembled for a similar question:
Unfortunately you got caught up in the minor miracle of Rosetta. Originally licensed by Apple when it migrated from the PowerPC CPU platform that it had used from the mid-1990's until the Intel CPU platform in 2006, Rosetta allowed Mac users to continue to use their library of PPC software transparently in emulation.
However, Apple's license to continue to use this technology expired with new releases of OS X commencing with Lion (and now Mountain Lion). While educational efforts have been made over the last 6 years, the fact is that Rosetta was SO successful that many users were caught unaware UNTIL they upgraded to Lion or Mountain Lion.
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1. If your Mac will support it, restore OS X Snow Leopard;
2. If your Mac will support it, partition your hard drive or add an external hard drive and install Snow Leopard into it and use the "dual-boot" method to choose between your PowerPC software or Lion/Mt. Lion;
3. Upgrade your software to Intel compatible versions, or find alternative software that will open your data files;
3. Install Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels:
[click on image to enlarge]
Full Snow Leopard installation instructions here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
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NOTE 2: Computer games with complex, 3D or fast motion graphics make not work well or at all in virtualization.

Message saying that I can't open the application Microsoft Word because PowerPC applications are no longer supported?

I had just upgraded my macbook to Mountain Lion and was wondering why PowerPC applications were no longer supported. I kind of really need to use Word for school, but when I tried to open it, I got the message "You can't open the application "Microsoft Word" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported."

SummerLutmer wrote:
I had just upgraded my macbook to Mountain Lion and was wondering why PowerPC applications were no longer supported...
Here is a recent post I assembled for a similar question:
Unfortunately you got caught up in the minor miracle of Rosetta. Originally licensed by Apple when it migrated from the PowerPC CPU platform that it had used from the mid-1990's until the Intel CPU platform in 2006, Rosetta allowed Mac users to continue to use their library of PPC software transparently in emulation.
However, Apple's license to continue to use this technology expired with new releases of OS X commencing with Lion (and now Mountain Lion). While educational efforts have been made over the last 6 years, the fact is that Rosetta was SO successful that many users were caught unaware UNTIL they upgraded to Lion or Mountain Lion.
Workarounds:
1. If your Mac will support it, restore OS X Snow Leopard;
2. If your Mac will support it, partition your hard drive or add an external hard drive and install Snow Leopard into it and use the "dual-boot" method to choose between your PowerPC software or Lion/Mt. Lion;
3. Upgrade your software to Intel compatible versions if they are available, or find alternative software that will;
3. Install Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels:
[click on images to enlarge]
Full Snow Leopard installation instructions here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
NOTE: STEP ONE of the instructions must currently be completed on a Snow Leopard or Lion Mac and the resulting modified Snow Leopard.cdr install file can then be moved over to your Mountain Lion Mac for completion of the remaining steps. A recent poster has offered a solution for Mountain Lion users that do not have access to Snow Leopard or Lion Macs.
NOTE 2: Computer games with complex, 3D or fast motion graphics make not work well or at all in virtualization.

I am trying to use the trial creative cloud software on a PC windows 8.1 - I've downloaded and removed Photoshop CC 2014 two times - every time I open the file it says there is a problem and it shuts down and closes. I can open indesign and maybe other ap

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I don't think I can access the crash report? Excuse the ignorant questions I'm about to make am a relative tech novice.
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I downloaded Maverick X 9.2 on my Mac Air. I get this error message: "You can't open the application "microsoft Word" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." Help?

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HT1444 Hi, I just tried to open Word and this message appeared - 'You can't open the application Microsoft Word because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.' I just recently loaded OS X Lion does this mean my software for MS Office is now out of

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Hello:
Office 2004 was written for the PowerPC chip only. There is no emulation in OS X 10.7.
I encountered the same issue sometime ago when I updated to OS X 10.7.
There is one option that I might mention (other than buy Office 2011). I switched to Apple's iWork. Pages (the word processing package) is completely compatible with Word. If you export Pages documents, you can export them in formats compatible with Microsoft programs. iWork also contains programs that are compatible with Office presentation and spreadsheet packages.
The reason I mention this is that the cost is about 1/2 of the cost of Office.
Barry

Why am I getting the following error message? You can't open the application "Microsoft Word" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. This is new...

Why am I getting the following error message? "You can’t open the application “Microsoft Word” because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." I never used to have a proble!

Only Office for Mac 2008 and 2011 will run on Mavericks. Microsoft support for the former package ended in April 2013. If you do not want to spend the money, you might download and try the donation-ware (free) LibreOffice Suite. No ribbon bar crap. Supports about any document created on Windows.

Protected View Error "The file is corrupt and cannot be opened"

All
I have a problem with Protected View in Office 2010 on Windows 7.
Symptom: When downloading a file from the Internet, the file will not open if launched directly from the source location, or saved locally and then opened. This
is impacting both Word and Excel. I haven’t tested other applications. The user gets the error "The file is corrupt and cannot be opened.".
Expected behaviour: Documents should open in Protected View because they are coming from an untrusted zone (Internet Zone).
Troubleshooting Results:
-      If I turn off Protected View the error goes away and the documents open without
issue (but not in Protected View obviously)
-      If I save the file locally, then copy it to a network drive, the problem goes away (because the zone information is changed?).
-      If I save the file directly to a network location, then open it, the problem does not impact me (also doesn’t open in Protected View)
-      If I repair Office the problem is NOT fixed
-      If I reinstall Office the problem is NOT fixed
The problem doesn't impact all machines, but any new machine I build suffers the problem. All Protected View options are set by group policy and all machines are getting the correct settings.
-       The setting “Enable Protected View for files originating from the Internet” is enabled
-       The setting “Enable Protected View for files located in potentially unsafe locations” is enabled
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Has anyone seen this problem or can anyone offer suggestions of where to start looking for the root cause? There are lots of postings on this around the various Internet forums, but most
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Thanks.
James.

Thanks for coming back, James, and I'm glad you've found the source of your
problem.
As an aside, I had no idea HP made software like that and will take a look
at it - or would if I could. Personally, although I love their hardware, I
wouldn't touch HP software, and the fact that their web page doesn't load
(in IE8) just reinforces my feeling.
Enjoy,
Tony
www.WordArticles.com
"jsc.19" wrote in message news:f9aaa05d-ad62-4f0e-96e1-6bbeb4c7098d...
> Will, thanks for taking the time to post some suggestions. I understand
> Protected View perfectly well and my post is because Protected View is not
> behaving as it should. I think my dot points above show this, still,
> thanks for taking the time to post. I think Tony is more on track with
> his questions around what has changed in my build, and this is the area
> I've focused on over the few days since posting.
>
> I've pulled my build apart and put it back together and found the issue.
> This was tedious to say the least, but turned out worthwhile. A program
> we used called Trim Context Desktop
> (http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/software/information-management-trim.html)
> is part of our SOE. This is a records management tool, but we only use a
> small feature set, and all the Office integration options that can be
> configured during install are turned off, but it turns out that the
> application still impacts Office. If I uninstall the Trim client from our
> SOE, Office Protected View starts working as expected. We knew the full
> Trim suite wasn't ready for Office 2010, but assumed, wrongly, that since
> we didn't use the Office integration features we were OK. All our testing
> was around the application and it works fine, I just didn't connect it to
> the Office issues until systematically eliminating changes from the SOE
> build. Keep a log of your changes!!! It helped me reverse things until I
> found the problem.
>
> Uninstalling Trim also fixes and issue I had in Outlook where the
> previewers wouldn't display Office documents, reporting that the
> previewers were not installed.
>
> We will go to HP to get some support and advice around this before putting
> Trim back in to the SOE.
>
> Anyone - if you have similar problems, can I suggest you look at all your
> Office add-ins and also any applications that may potentially hook in to
> Office.
>
> Cheers all.
>
> James.
>
>
>
Enjoy,
Tony
www.WordArticles.com

Updated to IOS 5.0.1 and now if I tap on a game icon instead of opening the game a grayish color comes over it and nothing happens. How can I get my games to work again?

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Purplehiddledog wrote:
I do backup with iCloud. I can't wait until the new iMac is available so that I can once again have my files in more than 1 location without needing to rely solely on the cloud.
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Outlook 2010 error - The file is corrupt and cannot be opened

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http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2387587
Hope this helps.
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Just did some more reading. I was going by the icon in the dock. When I checked in Finder, there it was, fixed and brand new!! Thanks, anyway.
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