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help! My text is gone and turned into lines of boxes!!
I am writing a book and saved my file on my pen drive. When I opened it up
this morning all my text was gone and had turned into lines of boxes!! I have no idea what happened, but would like to know how to fix it. Can anyone help? |
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help! My text is gone and turned into lines of boxes!!
Is the font different? See whether changing the font fixes the problem.
Also, check any backups you have or that Word created. "harmony" wrote: I am writing a book and saved my file on my pen drive. When I opened it up this morning all my text was gone and had turned into lines of boxes!! I have no idea what happened, but would like to know how to fix it. Can anyone help? |
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help! My text is gone and turned into lines of boxes!!
Or see "WD2002: Symbol Characters Are Changed to Box Characters" at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290978. If that's not the issue, then the doc has probably been corrupted by being saved directly to a removable drive. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Benjamin Barrett" wrote in message ... Is the font different? See whether changing the font fixes the problem. Also, check any backups you have or that Word created. "harmony" wrote: I am writing a book and saved my file on my pen drive. When I opened it up this morning all my text was gone and had turned into lines of boxes!! I have no idea what happened, but would like to know how to fix it. Can anyone help? |
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help! My text is gone and turned into lines of boxes!!
If your file is corrupted and you cannot recover the information in Word, try
opening the file in Notebook or some other text editor. Although the formatting may be gone and you will have a lot of extra characters, you may see enough of your book to copy and paste into Word to help you remember what you wrote as you try to rebuild it. As your book gets bigger, you may want to copy the file to a removable medium (disk, CD, etc). Do not do a Save As, instead do a Copy from Windows Explorer. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Or see "WD2002: Symbol Characters Are Changed to Box Characters" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290978. If that's not the issue, then the doc has probably been corrupted by being saved directly to a removable drive. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Benjamin Barrett" wrote in message ... Is the font different? See whether changing the font fixes the problem. Also, check any backups you have or that Word created. "harmony" wrote: I am writing a book and saved my file on my pen drive. When I opened it up this morning all my text was gone and had turned into lines of boxes!! I have no idea what happened, but would like to know how to fix it. Can anyone help? |
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help! My text is gone and turned into lines of boxes!!
This is so frustrating, nothing seems to be working. I tried opening it in
wordpad and it didn't work. I tried changing the font and that didn't work. I tried changing the macros and that didn't work,but I am not sure if I even did that correctly.  "ale" wrote: If your file is corrupted and you cannot recover the information in Word, try opening the file in Notebook or some other text editor. Although the formatting may be gone and you will have a lot of extra characters, you may see enough of your book to copy and paste into Word to help you remember what you wrote as you try to rebuild it. As your book gets bigger, you may want to copy the file to a removable medium (disk, CD, etc). Do not do a Save As, instead do a Copy from Windows Explorer. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Or see "WD2002: Symbol Characters Are Changed to Box Characters" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290978. If that's not the issue, then the doc has probably been corrupted by being saved directly to a removable drive. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Benjamin Barrett" wrote in message ... Is the font different? See whether changing the font fixes the problem. Also, check any backups you have or that Word created. "harmony" wrote: I am writing a book and saved my file on my pen drive. When I opened it up this morning all my text was gone and had turned into lines of boxes!! I have no idea what happened, but would like to know how to fix it. Can anyone help? |
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help! My text is gone and turned into lines of boxes!!
If "Recover Text from Any File" won't help, then it's pretty much lost. In
future, do not save directly to any removable device; always save to the HD, then copy to the device. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "harmony" wrote in message ... This is so frustrating, nothing seems to be working. I tried opening it in wordpad and it didn't work. I tried changing the font and that didn't work. I tried changing the macros and that didn't work,but I am not sure if I even did that correctly. "ale" wrote: If your file is corrupted and you cannot recover the information in Word, try opening the file in Notebook or some other text editor. Although the formatting may be gone and you will have a lot of extra characters, you may see enough of your book to copy and paste into Word to help you remember what you wrote as you try to rebuild it. As your book gets bigger, you may want to copy the file to a removable medium (disk, CD, etc). Do not do a Save As, instead do a Copy from Windows Explorer. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Or see "WD2002: Symbol Characters Are Changed to Box Characters" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290978. If that's not the issue, then the doc has probably been corrupted by being saved directly to a removable drive. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Benjamin Barrett" wrote in message ... Is the font different? See whether changing the font fixes the problem. Also, check any backups you have or that Word created. "harmony" wrote: I am writing a book and saved my file on my pen drive. When I opened it up this morning all my text was gone and had turned into lines of boxes!! I have no idea what happened, but would like to know how to fix it. Can anyone help? |
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help! My text is gone and turned into lines of boxes!!
I tried as an experiment saving a word doc on my computer than transferring
it to the pen drive and it too shows up as boxes. So nothing is saving correctly. I don't understand why it is doing this. How do I "recover text from any file" exactly?? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If "Recover Text from Any File" won't help, then it's pretty much lost. In future, do not save directly to any removable device; always save to the HD, then copy to the device. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "harmony" wrote in message ... This is so frustrating, nothing seems to be working. I tried opening it in wordpad and it didn't work. I tried changing the font and that didn't work. I tried changing the macros and that didn't work,but I am not sure if I even did that correctly. "ale" wrote: If your file is corrupted and you cannot recover the information in Word, try opening the file in Notebook or some other text editor. Although the formatting may be gone and you will have a lot of extra characters, you may see enough of your book to copy and paste into Word to help you remember what you wrote as you try to rebuild it. As your book gets bigger, you may want to copy the file to a removable medium (disk, CD, etc). Do not do a Save As, instead do a Copy from Windows Explorer. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Or see "WD2002: Symbol Characters Are Changed to Box Characters" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290978. If that's not the issue, then the doc has probably been corrupted by being saved directly to a removable drive. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Benjamin Barrett" wrote in message ... Is the font different? See whether changing the font fixes the problem. Also, check any backups you have or that Word created. "harmony" wrote: I am writing a book and saved my file on my pen drive. When I opened it up this morning all my text was gone and had turned into lines of boxes!! I have no idea what happened, but would like to know how to fix it. Can anyone help? |
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