<p>You may receive the following error: <strong>Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc</strong></p>
<p>This error appears because of the security update for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 on December 8, 2009. You may experience a mail merge issues write files are parsed but no message is shown.</p>
<p>To resolve this issue, an affected user can unregister the mswrd632 converter by editing the registry as follows:</p>
<p>Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #333399;">Locate and then click the following registry subkey:<br />
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Text Converters\Import\MSWord6.wpc<br />
On the Edit menu, click Delete.<br />
Click Yes.<br />
Exit Registry Editor.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">NOTE: For x64 systems above path is slightly changed:</span><br />
</span><span style="color: #333399;">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Applets\Wordpad</span></p>
<p>This change will effectively unregister the mswrd632 converter and disable it for third-party applications and for Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office will use its own text converters to open these kinds of files.<!--more--></p>
<p>You can also fix this issue with applying the registry fix, but that is a less secure way according to Microsoft, as this fix actually creates &#8216;<strong>AllowConversion</strong>&#8216; key in the new &#8216;<strong>Wordpad</strong>&#8216; subfolder. (<span style="color: #000080;">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Wordpad</span>)</p>
<p><a href="attachments/AllowConversion.reg" target="_blank">Download REG fix</a></p>
<p>There is another way to solve this issue by copying the MSWrd632.wpc file from another computer that doesn&#8217;t have this issue. Make sure that this file comes from a trusted source on your network. This file can be found on the following path:</p>
<p><strong>C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\TextConv</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">UPDATE: Above fix was not helpful to some of our readers, so Thomas Lewis offered another suggestion which should also help.</span></p>
<p>Go to <strong>Tools >; Options >; General (Tab) in Word 2003</strong><br />
And check “<strong>Confirm Conversion at Open</strong>”<br />
When you next try to open the document it will prompt you with a list to convert from. Choose Word 2007 and your document will open.<br />
Have in mind that you will have to unregister mswrd632 first, which is noted above, before you make this changes.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">NOTE:</span> If none of this works, please check that your file is not corrupted, or that you or someone else didn&#8217;t add X at the end of .doc extension or vise versa. This WILL NOT work! You have to convert the document using Office 2007 or 2010.</p>
<p>Another reported solution is to try to convert the extension of the file to .xls or .doc</p>
<p>Feel free to post your comments below.</p>

mswrd632.wpc Word cannot start the converter error
