The file you are trying to open may be damaged. Your Microsoft Office program may let you try to recover the text from the damaged file, or if recovery doesn't work, you can delete the damaged file and open a backup copy.
Note If you are not connected to the internet you can click Send Error Report Later to be prompted to send the report the next time you connect.
If a file has [Recovered] in the title it is usually a file that contains more recent changes than a file with [Original] in the title.
The file name or the path name may exceed 223 characters. Do one of the following:
Shorten the file name.
Move the file to another folder that is closer to the top of the folder hierarchy.
Try to open the file again.
The disk the file is on may be too full
Try moving files to another disk to make more space available.
The Open dialog box doesn't list the file I'm looking for.
Make sure you have the correct file type selected in the Files of type box.
In the Open dialog box, click Tools, and then click Search. Select the options you want, and then click Search.
If you're looking for a file on the network and the network drive doesn't appear in the Open dialog box under Look in, do the following:
Click Tools, and then click Map Network Drive.
In the Drive box, click the drive letter you want to use to connect to the network.
In the Folder box, enter the path where the file is located on the network
You can also look for files on a network drive if your network supports the UNC. Just type the UNC path in the File name box in the Open dialog box
If you're looking for files on a Web server:
In the Open dialog box, click My Network Places on the My Places bar to display folders on the Web server. Double-click the folders until you open the folder that contains the document you want.
You can also type the folder path in the File name box in the Open dialog box
I can't open a password protected file.
My file opened in a separate window.
The shortcut to my file doesn't work anymore.
The file may have been renamed or deleted
The shortcut will not work if there has been any change to the target file's name or extension. Use the Microsoft Office Search feature to look for files that have similar names or that were created or modified on the same date as the file you are trying to open.
In the Open dialog box, click Tools, and then click Search. Select the options you want, and then click Search.
The file may be temporarily unavailable