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I have opened an old word file only to find that it is unreadable. How do I convert it back to its original - readable - form?
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Help!! Anybody?!
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Charles Kenyon
Which old version of Word?
You can try, with Word open.
File > Open
Change the file type to "Recover text from any file"
Try opening your document. If it opens, at all, save it to a new name. It
will have a lot of clutter that you'll have to clean up.
Before quitting Word, go back to the FileOpen dialog and change the file
type back to Word documents.
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Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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You can try, with Word open.
File > Open
Change the file type to "Recover text from any file"
Try opening your document. If it opens, at all, save it to a new name. It
will have a lot of clutter that you'll have to clean up.
Before quitting Word, go back to the FileOpen dialog and change the file
type back to Word documents.
--
Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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I convert it back to its original - readable - form?claire said:I have opened an old word file only to find that it is unreadable. How do
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Charles Kenyon
Using open text from any file (which is one of the choices for file type on
the File Open dialog) will give you a lot of gibberish. It is just (often)
better than nothing.
--
Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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the File Open dialog) will give you a lot of gibberish. It is just (often)
better than nothing.
--
Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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figure out how to change it back to the way it should look.claire said:1. How do I change the file type to "Recover text from any file"?????
2. I can open the document but I get a lot of "gibberish" and I can't
not a very computer-minded person! Thanks in advance for your patienceI'd really appreciate it if you could give me guidance for idiots as I'm