[Hope Springs]

Hi this may seem very simple to some of you( I do hope it is), but I am
trying to recover some word doc`s, these were written on word 2000 and I am
trying to open them with 2003. All I get is gibberish, squares and fraction
numbers and the like, I have tried to open them with the recovery function in
the open button menu, it says it has recovered the document but all it does
is to rearrange the `words` down the left hand side of the page but it is
still giberish.I have also tried the `recover text from any file` and that
doesnt open them either. I hope someone can help with this as I do not have
much hair as it is, so I can`t afford to lose anymore.
Thanks in anticipation.
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Hope Springs

[Nina]

Hi Hope,

Do the files you are trying to open have ".doc" extensions? If they don't,
add ".doc" to the filenames and then try opening the files in Word. It's a
long shot but a simple thing to try. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'm out of
suggestions. Good luck!



"Hope Springs" wrote:

Hi this may seem very simple to some of you( I do hope it is), but I am
trying to recover some word doc`s, these were written on word 2000 and I am
trying to open them with 2003. All I get is gibberish, squares and fraction
numbers and the like, I have tried to open them with the recovery function in
the open button menu, it says it has recovered the document but all it does
is to rearrange the `words` down the left hand side of the page but it is
still giberish.I have also tried the `recover text from any file` and that
doesnt open them either. I hope someone can help with this as I do not have
much hair as it is, so I can`t afford to lose anymore.
Thanks in anticipation.
--
Hope Springs

[Graham Mayor]

Word can recognize its native files without regard to the extension. It
sounds as though this document is hopelessly corrupt.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Nina wrote:
Hi Hope,

Do the files you are trying to open have ".doc" extensions? If they
don't, add ".doc" to the filenames and then try opening the files in
Word. It's a long shot but a simple thing to try. Otherwise, I'm
afraid I'm out of suggestions. Good luck!



"Hope Springs" wrote:

Hi this may seem very simple to some of you( I do hope it is), but I
am trying to recover some word doc`s, these were written on word
2000 and I am trying to open them with 2003. All I get is gibberish,
squares and fraction numbers and the like, I have tried to open them
with the recovery function in the open button menu, it says it has
recovered the document but all it does is to rearrange the `words`
down the left hand side of the page but it is still giberish.I have
also tried the `recover text from any file` and that doesnt open
them either. I hope someone can help with this as I do not have much
hair as it is, so I can`t afford to lose anymore.
Thanks in anticipation.
--
Hope Springs