I don't know why you posted to the Live Mesh Beta forum, but you can get help with Office issues here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office
You will need to provide more information about your problem, such as the oeprating system in use, where the files are located, what the source of the files are (emailed to you, created by a previous version, copied from another PC, etc) and what the exact
error message encountered is.
-steve
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