Author in a Panic..some text is now gibberish!

T

TDolce

Man,...I sure hope someone has a fix for this:

Today I opened up my book that I'm writing in Word03 and much to my
horror, noticed not only was it shorter than I had left off (about 4
pages shorter) but the last part of the last page was converted in some
sort of encrypted gibberish that looked exactly like this:

“ Teddy, you have been thrown around into some pretty uncomfortable
situations in your short time here on this planet. I know it has
beenØ4¹;›K_<_pF<¸%<ñ_#<É_M<_˜A<Ôj_<+ö_<;h)<_Ÿ¯;5¸¥;z~Â;¹R•¹ˆ<ʹx–ƒ;P¹üœ±º.¿h;õ4_;óŸï9È?s;ìôÄ;eã”;ø_Â:ŒŽc;~_*;W_ݺ€¹íº¯_“;½‘=»ÆêÞ»__;ƒ_òºþeî»D1à:Ù„V9y”_¼¶Y_»«`¦¹Ãã_¼'0#¼Q4»;–/¼_Ìt¼•”+¼ÃÙ_¼_´Ž¼_Œ‰¼æÛ_¼53W¼#±Ž¼JªA¼Íé^¼üV¥¼¨Ý–¼h±’¼_ƒµ¼’àü9I¿¼ã¬µ¼Z½¼fû¼¼QÖ¼‡q›¼_B¯¼
“‚¼Y×~¼


Desperate, I have tried embedding and running a macro (sub symbol
convert) straight from Microsoft, and it did not help whatsoever.

Then I tried two apps online that supposedly recover Word Docs,...but
they proved worthless as the trouble is not in recovering the
file,..BUT recovering the text in the file!

Before I have to rewrite these pages,...deos anyone know what could
have caused this (Virus check proved OK)? Anyone know how to decipher
that gibberish I pasted above?
 
T

TDolce

TDolce;431868 said:
Man,...I sure hope someone has a fix for this:

Today I opened up my book that I'm writing in Word03 and much to my
horror, noticed not only was it shorter than I had left off (about 4
pages shorter) but the last part of the last page was converted in some
sort of encrypted gibberish that looked exactly like this:

“ Teddy, you have been thrown around into some pretty uncomfortable
situations in your short time here on this planet. I know it has
beenØ4¹;›K__pF¸%ñ_#É_M_˜AÔj_+ö_;h)_Ÿ¯;5¸¥;z~Â;¹R•¹ˆÊ¹x–ƒ;P¹üœ±º.¿h;õ4_;óŸï9È?s;ìôÄ;eã”;ø_Â:ŒŽc;~_*;W_ݺ€¹íº¯_“;½‘=»ÆêÞ»__;ƒ_òºþeî»D1à:Ù„V9y”_¼¶Y_»«`¦¹Ãã_¼'0#¼Q4»;–/¼_Ìt¼•”+¼ÃÙ_¼_´Ž¼_Œ‰¼æÛ_¼53W¼#±Ž¼JªA¼Íé^¼üV¥¼¨Ý–¼h±’¼_ƒµ¼’àü9I¿¼ã¬µ¼Z½¼fû¼¼QÖ¼‡q›¼_B¯¼
“‚¼Y×~¼


Desperate, I have tried embedding and running a macro (sub symbol
convert) straight from Microsoft, and it did not help whatsoever.

Then I tried two apps online that supposedly recover Word Docs,...but
they proved worthless as the trouble is not in recovering the
file,..BUT recovering the text in the file!

Before I have to rewrite these pages,...deos anyone know what could
have caused this (Virus check proved OK)? Anyone know how to decipher
that gibberish I pasted above?

I resolved it myself. Thanks for the help.
I just re-wrote it and started over.
 
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