{"id":14527,"date":"2021-12-15T03:44:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T03:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=14527"},"modified":"2021-12-15T03:44:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T03:44:47","slug":"word-doc-opens-all-jumbled","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/office\/word-doc-opens-all-jumbled\/12895.html","title":{"rendered":"Word Doc Opens All Jumbled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a word file I created in Word 2010 and saved as a Word 97-2003<br \/>\ndocument. I reopened it a week later and closed it. Now, when I go to<br \/>\nopen it, the File Conversion box comes up. No matter what I choose,<br \/>\nthe text shows it&#8217;s &#8220;encrypted&#8221;. I&#8217;ve tried numerous conversion<br \/>\nattempts, opening on other PCs with different Word versions, Office&#8217;s<br \/>\n&#8216;open and repair&#8217; selection and several programs to try and extract<br \/>\ntext from corrupted files, but nothing has worked.<\/p>\n<p>Opening in Word as &#8220;Recover text from any files&#8221; gives me the following: (the<br \/>\n&#8220;1252LATIN1&#8221; is interesting, but not sure what that means&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>1252LATIN1<br \/>\nwindows-1252<br \/>\n}&amp;\u00cfx\u00a8\u00fd\u00a6O\u00f8\u00a1\u00f6\u0178Q\u00f1\u2013RbKPsH-N\u00e3<\/p>\n<p>;]2\u2022\u00a3\u00e4x \/Q&amp;WC;<br \/>\nl<br \/>\nX\u00d0\u201a&#8217;\u00d5W+},\u00d0;%\u00c0$yq<br \/>\n(}&amp;\u00cfx!Q\u00a6O\u00f8\u00a1Jz\u00cfx! &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone tell what technique this file needs to open properly or<br \/>\ndisplay the text I need to get from it?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":1},"question-category":[53],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-14527","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-office"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/14527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=14527"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=14527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}