diff --git a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/OldSectionTable.java b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/OldSectionTable.java
index 87218b35e..18819c32c 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/OldSectionTable.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/OldSectionTable.java
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ public final class OldSectionTable extends SectionTable
         //  section properties, and we're trying to decode them as if they
         //  were the new ones, we sometimes "need" more data than we have.
         // As a workaround, have a few extra 0 bytes on the end!
-        byte[] buf = new byte[sepxSize+2];
-        fileOffset += LittleEndian.SHORT_SIZE;
+        byte[] buf = new byte[sepxSize+4];
+        fileOffset += 4;
         System.arraycopy(documentStream, fileOffset, buf, 0, buf.length);
         _sections.add(new SEPX(sed, startAt, endAt, charConv, buf));
       }
diff --git a/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/extractor/TestWordExtractor.java b/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/extractor/TestWordExtractor.java
index 1ef21db3a..690345322 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/extractor/TestWordExtractor.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/extractor/TestWordExtractor.java
@@ -273,7 +273,17 @@ public final class TestWordExtractor extends TestCase {
         assertEquals("\r\n", tp[5]);
         assertEquals("Last (4th) paragraph.\r\n", tp[6]);
 	}
-	
+
+    public void testWord95err() throws Exception {
+        // Can work with the special one
+        Word6Extractor w6e = new Word6Extractor(
+                POIDataSamples.getDocumentInstance().openResourceAsStream("word95err.doc")
+        );
+        String text = w6e.getText();
+
+        assertTrue(text.contains("subject"));
+    }
+
 	public void testWord6() throws Exception {
         // Too old for the default
         try {
diff --git a/test-data/document/word95err.doc b/test-data/document/word95err.doc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7db961b63
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