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Text turned into symbols ??
HELP! I just opened a document and half of my text is looking like symbols or
something. It looks like this, but with a bunch of boxes where the spaces appear: ì¥Á 7 ð ¿ And it turned three pages of text into about 16, with one sentence of gibberish on the top of each page. Please help me. I need to get this text back. |
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Text turned into symbols ??
Hi Nina,
In Tools=Options=General in Word 2003 or earlier turn on Confirm Conversions on Open Then using File=Open in Word check to be sure that you're 'file type' listing at the bottom of that dialog is set to 'Word document' and then try opening the file again to see if you get the same result. ================ "ninafriction" wrote in message ... HELP! I just opened a document and half of my text is looking like symbols or something. It looks like this, but with a bunch of boxes where the spaces appear: 7 And it turned three pages of text into about 16, with one sentence of gibberish on the top of each page. Please help me. I need to get this text back. -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Text turned into symbols ??
Thanks, Bob, but that didn't work for me. I'm just beside myself right now...
any other ideas? "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Hi Nina, In Tools=Options=General in Word 2003 or earlier turn on Confirm Conversions on Open Then using File=Open in Word check to be sure that you're 'file type' listing at the bottom of that dialog is set to 'Word document' and then try opening the file again to see if you get the same result. ================ "ninafriction" wrote in message ... HELP! I just opened a document and half of my text is looking like symbols or something. It looks like this, but with a bunch of boxes where the spaces appear: ì¥Á 7 ð ¿ And it turned three pages of text into about 16, with one sentence of gibberish on the top of each page. Please help me. I need to get this text back. -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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