Unable to Open Word Documents Since Mavericks 10.9.5 Update

Since updating to Mavericks 10.9.5, I can no longer open Word documents that were created/edited between 8-27 and 9-18-14, and that I had opened 9-17 and earlier. I receive the following message when I attempt to open a document:
"Word cannot open this document. The document might be in use, the document might not be a valid Word document,
or the file name might contain invalid characters (for example, \ /)."
I have Microsoft Word for Mac 2011, version 14.3.5., and a MacBook Air 1.8GHz, Intel Core i7, mid 2011. Can you help?

Anybody else experiencing this? No mention of effects on Quicktime in the 10.9.5 upgrade notes.
Unable to duplicate your problem in random tests of my library. M4V (H.264/AAC/AC3/Chapter encoded) files continue to play normally in both QT 7 and QT X players. Anything special about your files or anything unusual happen during the system upgrade installation?

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