Doesn't look like "Plain text" to me; there's an example of that phenomenon
at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/RecoverText.htm
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"Jezebel" wrote in message
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That's a document opened as if it were plain text. Check the 'Files of
type'
setting on the File Open dialog.
"sjarrell" wrote in message
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Documents suddenly become unreadable---as if a virus has changed all the
characters in the document. Some of the text of a document is below.
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