hello JoelRoy
is it one particular word file or any word file?
If it's any word file, you will need to reinstall office / word
if it's just one file, you can most likely open it in
wordpad C:\Windows\System32\wordpad.exe
some formatting will of course be broken, but text and pictures will probably be good
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hm... this made me search for a doc / docx - and I've found none!
I guess they all were on the external backup disk that I lost. Okay, i cannot CHECK my advice. But you can.