"harmony" <harmony@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Can someone help me? I am writing a book and saved it last night on my pen
> drive and when I opened it this morning all the text had turned into lines
> of
> boxes. I can't figure out how to change it back. I tried all this but it
> did NOT work:
>
> If all the text appears garbled or as question marks, then Microsoft Word
> may not have accurately detected the encoding standard of text in the
> file.
> As a result, Word may have used the wrong encoding standard.
>
> To have Word use an encoding standard you select:
>
> On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
> Select the Confirm conversion at Open check box.
> Close and then reopen the encoded file.
> In the Convert File dialog box, select Encoded Text.
> In the File Conversion dialog box, select Other encoding, and then select
> the encoding standard you want in the list.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix my text or have I just lost everything I
> wrote?