How do I turn off file conversion. It's affecting all my files

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pepsi1061 - 02 Dec 2006 23:56 GMT

All my files have becomeconverted to some strange text. I have no idea what
I did or didn't do. The message comes up giving me 3 choices, Window
(default) MS dos or other decoding. I've tried all 3 at various times but
nothing works.
I really need my files. Can someone sugest something?

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Graham Mayor - 03 Dec 2006 10:49 GMT

Are these documents on floppy disc? In which case they are nor converted but
corrupted. Never access floppy disc from Word.

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> All my files have becomeconverted to some strange text. I have no
> idea what I did or didn't do. The message comes up giving me 3
> choices, Window (default) MS dos or other decoding. I've tried all 3
> at various times but nothing works.
> I really need my files. Can someone sugest something?

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aalaan - 03 Dec 2006 17:09 GMT

I think it's OK to *read* them (a kind of access) but NEVER to write to
removable media from Word. So it isn't the reading that's done it. They got
corrupted when they were written.

> Are these documents on floppy disc? In which case they are nor converted
> but corrupted. Never access floppy disc from Word.
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>> at various times but nothing works.
>> I really need my files. Can someone sugest something?

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