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

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pepsi1061

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

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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aalaan

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.
 
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Klaus Linke

No, they are not on floppy disk.

Next thing to check: In the "File > Open" dialog, is the file type set to
"Recover text from any file"?

Regards,
Klaus
 

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