tetlow_63,
Yeah you will need to either Go back and save the orginal document in .doc format, D/L Open office or use a Linux Live CD to get your data, if you didn't save it in .DOC format originally this is under Save as type and you can save it as a Word file. OOo saves it's documents in .ODT as law has stated above or if you are using 1.1 version in .SXW format
Jake