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Word document corrupted

Last response: in Windows XP
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Does anyone have a solution to this?. An important wordpad document have been damaged by too many saves, about half the text is gone and replaced with these characters \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ .

I had the same problem with a .doc document a year ago and found a simple solution on a forum, i could fix it in the word program, but i cannot remember what i did to fix it = /.

I have tried to highlight all the text and change the text to Arial, etc. I have also tried to copy the text and open the document in other programs without success.



Word makes backups of your document on the fly but then deletes them when you save or exit Word.

You Might be able to resurrect those backups and use them.

A program called Recuva can bring deleted files back by finding them and then copying them out to another drive or partition. Get it and give it a try, it might just work.

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