Office 2013

[Foster135@trilby.com]

When trying to open a .DOCX file in Word 2013  I receive the following error message:
“there was an error opening the file.”
What can be causing this to happen?

[Nuuppanaani]

Why are you asking this on our forums?

There's better, more appropriate places to get tech support from.

[Nickster258]

This isn't the first time a brand new account has asked random tech questions.

[Chibill]

Yeah once we had a bot answer a boys question.

[PabloDons]

Well not the first time I've seen people make accounts only for the sake of asking a question. Not necessarily a bot

[WWWeber]

Try to resolve this issue, follow the steps below:
1.      Close any applications that are running.
2.      Open an elevated command prompt. To do this, click Start , click All Programs , click Accessories , right-clickCommand Prompt , and then click Run as administrator . If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow .
3.      Type the following:
regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\system32\ole32.dll and then click OK.
4.      When you receive the message  "DllRegisterServer in ole32.dll succeeded.", click OK:
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[Nickster258]

Ah, spam. This is where I stop things.

[Nuuppanaani]

Maybe OP and the spammer are the same person :ooo