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Trying to open saved word doc from thumbdrive -unreadable code ?
As I tried to re-open a saved Word doc from a thumbdrive, i got a strange
looking code that I could not open...tried to open it with different programs but to no avail not all of the docs (which were all Word docs) were affected. Any suggestions? |
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Trying to open saved word doc from thumbdrive -unreadable code ?
First, don't open Word documents directly from any kind of removable
media -- floppies, CDs, DVDs, thumb drives, etc. If you forget that a document is open and you remove the drive, the document is instant trash and generally unrecoverable. Always copy the document to the hard drive and open it from there, and copy it back to the thumb drive after you close the document out of Word. In this case, after copying the files to the hard drive, start Word with a blank document. Go to File Open, select one of the documents, click the down arrow next to the Open button, and select "Open and Repair". That _may_ get you a usable document, or maybe not. If that doesn't work, try setting the "Files of type" dropdown in the File Open dialog to "Recover text from any file" and then open one of the documents. If there's anything recoverable in the file, you can get it that way, but there won't be any formatting. And _don't_ save any document that has been opened in "Recover text" mode -- just copy the text out of it to paste into another file, and close the original without saving it. On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:06:02 -0800, 2thguy wrote: As I tried to re-open a saved Word doc from a thumbdrive, i got a strange looking code that I could not open...tried to open it with different programs but to no avail not all of the docs (which were all Word docs) were affected. Any suggestions? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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