Andree Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 Does anyone have a solution to this?. An important wordpad document have been damaged by too many saves, about half the text is gone and replaced with these characters \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ .I had the same problem with a .doc document a year ago and found a simple solution on a forum, i could fix it in the word program, but i cannot remember what i did to fix it = /.I have tried to highlight all the text and change the text to Arial, etc. I have also tried to copy the text and open the document in other programs without success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 Try this piece of freeware:/>http://www.freewarezoom.com/archives/word-repairJohn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digerati Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 An important wordpad document have been damaged by too many savesToo many saves does not damage a document. That Word Repair program is great, but the OP said he is having problems with a WordPad document. Not sure a Word recovery program will help with a doc damaged in WordPad. If you can pull your WordPad doc into Word, then run that program, it is worth a try, but much depends on how it was damaged, and to what extent. But since you report you have tried to open it with other programs, I don't hold out much hope. In the future, if you have Word, I might suggest you use that instead of WordPad because you can set Word to automatically save a back up every few minutes. I suspect the free OpenOffice lets you do the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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