When opening an existing .kwd file (even one created using the *same* *version* of KWord), I receive the following message: Could not open <filename> Reason: parsing error in the main document at line 6317, column 3 Error message: unexpected character This has happened more than once now, although I don't think it happens with every single document. I would be happy to provide a test .kwd file which displays this error, if it would be useful, although it would be five pages long.
You should file it at bugs.kde.org so that the koffice maintainers can properly fix this.
This bug has been posted to KDE's bug tracking system. Details are available here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96416 Thanks.