RE: Reparing and Accessing Word 2003 Document

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

If you saved the documet with a different title, what happened to the old
document with the old title?

Sounds like you corrupted the new doc. Could be a hard drive error -have
you checked the drive forerrors?

Back up on external media on a frquent basis is absolute must for "very
important docs."

My philosophy is that if you lost something that important and you didn't
back up...you can't complain. You need better computer use habits, that's
all.

"gaalpert" wrote:

I have a very important document file. One day I simply opened it, save an
entry (test) and saved as new doc with different title (to track, etc.).

Now it opens and looks like heiroglyphics!

Most of the characters are rectangular blocks! Some looks Asian in nature.
The program says they are all Vogel 14 font. Two of three words (ie.
Header), are readable English.

I spent several hours with Dell Support (it is a reasonably new Dell
Inspiron desktop) and they could not figure it out and recommended, even tho'
my 2003 is fully licensed) that I upgrade to the Office 2007 suite.

We did and they had me run an auto correct program but that did not work
and had no impact. Unfortunately!

If any one has any wonderful ideas it would be a hugh help. Some of the
data I can rebuild but not all ! !
--
Gary A. Alpert

Peoria, AZ
gaalpert@xxxxxxxxx
623-977-7111
.