Corrupt Word Documents

[Dushyant]

Some of my documents got accidentally deleted a couple of days back. I
recovered them the very next day using a file recovery software. Now the
contents of some of the documents have changed and they are not normal
english. The words appear as follows :
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These documents are very important to me and I don't have a backup. I need
to get the errors corrected as soon as possible. The same has happened to
some of my Excel files as well. Please help me. Thank You.

-Dushyant

 

[Beth Melton]

If you deleted the documents and then used a recovery program to get them
back then unfortunately there is nothing else that can be done. It's not
that they in another language (well...they technically they are...) but what
you are seeing are those documents that have had part of the file
overwritten and the file is now lost - there is nothing to recover.

When you delete a file it's not actually deleted, which is why you were able
to recover them, the file contents remains on disk until another file
happens to overwrite it which is what happened to those files you're unable
to view correctly.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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