Word not recognizing characters after upgrade

Hi,
After upgrading from Word for Mac 2004-11.6.6- to Word for Mac 2011-14.4.5 I am unable to open some of my files. I get a message the the document might cobtain invalid characters. The invalid character is /. I used it in the title to seperate dates as to when the file was sent, such as 7/04/14, 10/5/14.
I have to drag the file to the old version of Word that thankfully I did not uninstall or I have to manually change the / to a - and then it works fine with the newer version.
I recently went to update to OSX Yosemite and it informed me that the old version of Word would no longer run if I continued. I stopped the update.
My questions are these:
Must I manually change all of the titles first while the old version of Word is still running or can I upgrade the OS and change the files titles as I go later? There are 300-400 of them, some of which I need to keep but may not ever use again.
Is the incompatability just in the titles or if I used a / or \ in the body will it reject those also? If so I will not be able to open them to correct it if I finish the OS upgrade.
Also, I'm aware of the files in this folder that I'm currently speaking of but must I somehow search my computer for any archived Word files and change them also?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Joe

Hi,
After upgrading from Word for Mac 2004-11.6.6- to Word for Mac 2011-14.4.5 I am unable to open some of my files. I get a message the the document might cobtain invalid characters. The invalid character is /. I used it in the title to seperate dates as to when the file was sent, such as 7/04/14, 10/5/14.
I have to drag the file to the old version of Word that thankfully I did not uninstall or I have to manually change the / to a - and then it works fine with the newer version.
I recently went to update to OSX Yosemite and it informed me that the old version of Word would no longer run if I continued. I stopped the update.
My questions are these:
Must I manually change all of the titles first while the old version of Word is still running or can I upgrade the OS and change the files titles as I go later? There are 300-400 of them, some of which I need to keep but may not ever use again.
Is the incompatability just in the titles or if I used a / or \ in the body will it reject those also? If so I will not be able to open them to correct it if I finish the OS upgrade.
Also, I'm aware of the files in this folder that I'm currently speaking of but must I somehow search my computer for any archived Word files and change them also?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Joe

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