Re: Word Document Shows Unreadable Text


Whether it can recover the document is anyone's guess, but at least they
provide the option to check before you buy -
http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/Download-Word-Document-Repair-Software.php

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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Sagehen wrote:
ok, thanks for your help both of you.

I just spent an hour and a half chatting with OmniTech support....
and the guy said that the file is badly corrupted and the only way to
get it back is to purchase Nucleus Kernel for Word for $49. Does
anyone know much about this program? Is it worth buying it to save
this one document? (That's probably a question only I can answer
though I guess....)

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You would be lucky to recover the files from the flash drive - but
to avoid the problems in the first place, the macro at
http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm which copies files to
flash drive may help.

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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DeanH wrote:
ah ha! The dreaded Flash Drive stricks again!
I have many colleagues who habitually work on Word files from their
flash drives and say it is not a problem, then all of a sudden they
come screaming to me for help when their most important file
corrupts! Also I am not too sure if there is a certain method of
recovering these affected files.
Maybe another contributor to this newsgroup will have some advice.
All the best
DeanH


"Sagehen" wrote:

I tried doing the "Open and Repair" thing but it didn't do much....
a box popped up saying "Errors were detected in the file but Word
was able to open the file by making the repairs listed below." (and
then listed a few things) But as far as I could tell nothing was
changed.

Ya, I definitely remember the file got all messed up after I tried
using a flash drive to transport the document between two
computers....

"DeanH" wrote:

Sorry that nothing has worked.
From your description it would seem that the document is corrupt.
Did you try Open and Repair from the Open dialog box?
As the macro did not work, we can assume that the problem was not
the "Wingding" thing.
A question for you, was this document opened/edited/saved from a
flash drive/USB/removeable media?
I ask as this is a sure-fire way of corrupting a document and
copying/moving onto a hard-drive, then working on the document,
closing it and then copy/moving back must be standard operating
procedure.
All the best
DeanH

"Sagehen" wrote:

One more thing I just noticed, I don't know if it'll be helpful
or not...

When I try to scroll down through the document it lets me go to
page 8, but once I scroll down past page 8 the document jumps me
back up to page 1. At the bottom of the screen it says the
document is 50 pages long, but for some reason it doesn't let me
scroll past page 8. I don't know exactly how long the document
was before it got all messed up, but I'm guessing it was around 8
pages long.

"Sagehen" wrote:

The symbols are boxes and rectangles and then some "paragraphs"
or lines of some kind of Asian characters (like Chinese or
something). Also, the document is probably about 10x longer than
it was before, there are some pages with nothing except a few of
these Asian-type characters at the top.

I tried running the macro but the document still shows the weird
characters. I've never run a macro before but I followed the
directions. The one part I was a little unclear about was at the
very end the directions told me to click the "Save" icon on the
vba editor toolbar. I wasn't exactly sure what it meant so I
clicked on the little floppy disk icon that usually means "save"
although I wasn't sure if I was saving the document or the macro
itself....

"DeanH" wrote:

Can you descibe these weird symbols?
Can you still read your text? Have a look at the following
article, as this usually solves the problems for most.
See: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

If all text has changed and it all looks like wingding
characters, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290978 "WD2002:
Symbol
Characters Are Changed to Box Characters" (the instructions
should apply to Word 2003 as well) and for help on macro
installation http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm .

Come back if you need further assistance
Hope this helps
DeanH


"Sagehen" wrote:

An important Word document I saved suddenly shows weird
symbols in the document instead of the English words. I've
tried selecting all the text and changing the font to "Times
New Roman" or something similar but it still shows the weird
symbols. I've also determined this problem is not caused by my
computer because I've emailed the document to myself and
opened it with a different computer to find the same result.
If anyone can help me fix this problem I will be very
grateful.

I'm using MS Word 2003. I currently have Vista on my computer
but I wasn't using Vista when I originally created the
document quite a while ago.

Thank you!


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