I left a word document open and now it is replaced with square let

[InfernoQueen]

I have a important document that i typed and I left it open for several hours
and now various paragraphs changed letters into weird coding that is not
html, it seems to be square-ish letters with numbers in it as well. My
document was for a book that I am writing and if I lose those paragraphs
permanantly there is no way that I could recreate it in my mind the same way
without going into a different direction; that and my patience for due dates

 

[Patricia Shannon]

Before making any changes, do a File/Save As to a new file name.
If you saved the original file before you started doing something else, you
can you can then open the original saved file.
Look at the directory and see if there is a backup.
Do you have Word set to do autorecover? Check tools/options/save
I haven't used autorecovery, you could look at Help to see what how to
recover a file. I expect someone more knowledgable on the forum than I will
leave info on that, if they haven't already while I'm typing this!
If you select a few of the odd letters/numbers, what font are they?

 

[InfernoQueen]

Thanks for the comment. But yes I do have word recover and the first think I
did was re-save the document, and I do have auto-recover but neither of them
worked, I also tried to close and re-open the document several times but tha
did not work. Everythin was in Times New Roman. I lost at least four or five
key paragraphs. I took a gander at a few forums that sounded a bit similar to
what I had but nothing seemed to really fit. It is all square zeros and your
seldom numbers. I am upset at the fact that I lost so many paragraphs but at
the fact that I have due dates to meet I just re-made the paragraphs even
though they do not fit the same way I had them to begin with. But I still
want to see if I could recover the text. Because I have not messed with the
orginal document for since it messed up.