... way to do it, is to manually open the file in Word 98 and resave the file with Word 98. That will change the creator so that Mac OS will always try to open that document with Word 98 first.

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Quite so. That was implicit in the above, but there is no harm in making it explicit. Easy Open is much touted, but it seems that it has its sticking points, as you have cited. I believe that MacLinkPlus does better.

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