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hi ,
i saved word documents and transfered them onto my other laptop. when i opened them i get tiny squares all over the page and no letters. I have tried nearly everything to get my documents back, how can i do it please. my old laptop is now reformatted and wont open on that either. Thankyou |
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Those boxes are usually displayed when certain symbols or fonts aren't
recognized. 1) The documents are in a rather special font, which isn't installed on the new laptop, and have of course disappeared after formatting the old one. Try changing the font. 2) Have you tried opening the documents in Wordpad (or even notepad) to see whether these will display the original text? i saved word documents and transfered them onto my other laptop. when i opened them i get tiny squares all over the page and no letters. I have tried nearly everything to get my documents back, how can i do it please. my old laptop is now reformatted and wont open on that either. Thankyou |
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Hi Jason,
It sounds as if: A) you're opening the files in Word's 'recover text' mode. Check File|Open and make sure that the 'All Word documents' option in the 'Files of type' tab is active; B) you're opening the files with a text editor rather than Word. If so, use Word or Wordpad; or C) you saved the files with a '.txt' extension. If so, try changing the file extension back to '.doc'. Cheers "jason" wrote in message ... hi , i saved word documents and transfered them onto my other laptop. when i opened them i get tiny squares all over the page and no letters. I have tried nearly everything to get my documents back, how can i do it please. my old laptop is now reformatted and wont open on that either. Thankyou |
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Hi Macropod,
Thankyou for the reply. I have office 2003 teacher and student edition, where as i think the other office on my other pute was 2000, could that be the problem? i downloaded some codes etc but i think they were only for upto 2000-2003 but not teacher student edition. Please i have some questions and answers to your post in order of your replies if you dont mind having a look at? 1. I dont have "All word documents" in my files type menu bar just word documents. i opened it in that format and still got the little squares. 2. Im not sure what you mean by openening it in text editor however i have tried opening it in wordpad and notepad but to no joy. How do i open it in text editor to try the notepad or word pad please? 3. I dont mean to sound vacant but i have'nt got a clue what you mean by i could of saved files in ".txt" extension, if that is to be the case how can i check to see if it has been saved in that extension and also change it back to ".doc". Im sorry for asking these questions, i appreciate your help. It would mean alot if i could get these docs back as i am currently serving in Baghdad and the documents are very important to us out here. There is a crate of beer in it for you if i can get these back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean that too. thanks macropod Kind regards Jason p.s my email is "jason" wrote: hi , i saved word documents and transfered them onto my other laptop. when i opened them i get tiny squares all over the page and no letters. I have tried nearly everything to get my documents back, how can i do it please. my old laptop is now reformatted and wont open on that either. Thankyou |
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