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gaalpert - 23 Jan 2008 01:50 GMT

I have a very important document file. One day I simply opened it, save an
entry (test) and saved as new doc with different title (to track, etc.).

Now it opens and looks like heiroglyphics!

Most of the characters are rectangular blocks! Some looks Asian in nature.
The program says they are all Vogel 14 font. Two of three words (ie.
Header), are readable English.

I spent several hours with Dell Support (it is a reasonably new Dell
Inspiron desktop) and they could not figure it out and recommended, even tho'
my 2003 is fully licensed) that I upgrade to the Office 2007 suite.

We did and they had me run an auto correct program but that did not work
and had no impact. Unfortunately!

If any one has any wonderful ideas it would be a hugh help. Some of the
data I can rebuild but not all ! !

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Terry Farrell - 23 Jan 2008 10:08 GMT

They had you upgrade to Word 2007 to resolve a corrupt document? I would
take legal action to recover money wasted in that case. Only a complete
idiot would suggest such a resolution. At best the suggestion was technical
incompetency; at worst it was criminal extortion.

It sounds like your document is totally corrupt. Did you save it to
Removable media such as a flash drive? This is the most common reason for
corrupt documents.

Meanwhile, you can try using the Open and Repair function (available in BOTH
2003 and 2007) or if that fails, try the Recover text from any file option
(again available in both).

If that fails, try opening the document in WordPad.

But it sounds well and trying blown away (along with the cost of the
upgrade).

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>I have a very important document file. One day I simply opened it, save an
> entry (test) and saved as new doc with different title (to track, etc.).
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> If any one has any wonderful ideas it would be a hugh help. Some of the
> data I can rebuild but not all ! !

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Janka - 27 Jan 2008 04:02 GMT

If you saved the documet with a different title, what happened to the old
document with the old title?

Sounds like you corrupted the new doc. Could be a hard drive error -have
you checked the drive forerrors?

Back up on external media on a frquent basis is absolute must for "very
important docs."

My philosophy is that if you lost something that important and you didn't
back up...you can't complain. You need better computer use habits, that's
all.

> I have a very important document file. One day I simply opened it, save an
> entry (test) and saved as new doc with different title (to track, etc.).
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> If any one has any wonderful ideas it would be a hugh help. Some of the
> data I can rebuild but not all ! !

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