diff --git a/src/integrationtest/org/apache/poi/TestAllFiles.java b/src/integrationtest/org/apache/poi/TestAllFiles.java
index 77651274e4..333a8ebcdc 100644
--- a/src/integrationtest/org/apache/poi/TestAllFiles.java
+++ b/src/integrationtest/org/apache/poi/TestAllFiles.java
@@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ public class TestAllFiles {
         "spreadsheet/poc-xmlbomb.xlsx",  // contains xml-entity-expansion
         "spreadsheet/poc-xmlbomb-empty.xlsx",  // contains xml-entity-expansion
         "spreadsheet/poc-shared-strings.xlsx",  // contains shared-string-entity-expansion
+        "document/61612a.docx",
+        "document/word2.doc",
 
         // old Excel files, which we only support simple text extraction of
         "spreadsheet/testEXCEL_2.xls",
diff --git a/src/integrationtest/org/apache/poi/stress/HPSFFileHandler.java b/src/integrationtest/org/apache/poi/stress/HPSFFileHandler.java
index a5baa4adbc..680cac8398 100644
--- a/src/integrationtest/org/apache/poi/stress/HPSFFileHandler.java
+++ b/src/integrationtest/org/apache/poi/stress/HPSFFileHandler.java
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ public class HPSFFileHandler extends POIFSFileHandler {
         "spreadsheet/55982.xls",
         "spreadsheet/testEXCEL_3.xls",
         "spreadsheet/testEXCEL_4.xls",
-        "hpsf/Test_Humor-Generation.ppt"
+        "hpsf/Test_Humor-Generation.ppt",
+        "document/word2.doc"
     );
     
     static final Set<String> EXCLUDES_HANDLE_FILE = unmodifiableHashSet(
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/poifs/filesystem/FileMagic.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/poifs/filesystem/FileMagic.java
index 6bde1ced8e..765cf6e323 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/poifs/filesystem/FileMagic.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/poifs/filesystem/FileMagic.java
@@ -77,10 +77,11 @@ public enum FileMagic {
     PDF("%PDF"),
     /** Some different HTML documents */
     HTML("<!DOCTYP".getBytes(UTF_8), "<html".getBytes(UTF_8)),
+    WORD2(new byte[]{ (byte)0xdb, (byte)0xa5, 0x2d, 0x00}),
     // keep UNKNOWN always as last enum!
     /** UNKNOWN magic */
     UNKNOWN(new byte[0]);
-    
+
     final byte[][] magic;
     
     FileMagic(long magic) {
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/poifs/storage/HeaderBlock.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/poifs/storage/HeaderBlock.java
index c833138a24..778590a899 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/poifs/storage/HeaderBlock.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/poifs/storage/HeaderBlock.java
@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@ public final class HeaderBlock implements HeaderBlockConstants {
 	   case MSWRITE:
            throw new NotOLE2FileException("The supplied data appears to be in the old MS Write format. "
                + "Apache POI doesn't currently support this format");
+	   case WORD2:
+		   throw new NotOLE2FileException("The supplied data appears to be an old Word version 2 file. "
+			   + "Apache POI doesn't currently support this format");
        case BIFF2:
        case BIFF3:
        case BIFF4:
diff --git a/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/usermodel/TestHWPFOldDocument.java b/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/usermodel/TestHWPFOldDocument.java
index 50ddda3297..d5702d9a9c 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/usermodel/TestHWPFOldDocument.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/usermodel/TestHWPFOldDocument.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ public final class TestHWPFOldDocument extends HWPFTestCase {
         // Can't open as HWPFDocument
         HWPFTestDataSamples.openSampleFile("Word6.doc");
     }
-    
+
     @Test
     public void testWord6hwpfOld() throws IOException {
         // Open
@@ -60,8 +60,21 @@ public final class TestHWPFOldDocument extends HWPFTestCase {
         doc.close();
     }
 
-    
-    
+    /**
+     * Test a simple Word 2 document
+     */
+    @Test(expected=IllegalArgumentException.class)
+    public void testWord2hwpf() throws IOException {
+        // Can't open as HWPFDocument
+        HWPFTestDataSamples.openSampleFile("word2.doc");
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected=RuntimeException.class)
+    public void testWord2hwpfOld() throws IOException {
+        // Open
+        HWPFTestDataSamples.openOldSampleFile("word2.doc");
+    }
+
     /**
      * Test a simple Word 95 document
      */
diff --git a/test-data/document/word2.doc b/test-data/document/word2.doc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e100a61a00
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