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    Recovered Documents (resumes, etc) cannot be viewed!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by arrow, Jan 3, 2008.

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    arrow Notebook Guru

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    After my I used Easeus Data Recovery Wizard on my Dell Inspiron 1505, I realized I could not open some of the documents(all of it Word docs). Although I have not installed Microsoft Office yet, I tried using Open Office Word to view the documents. Some of which opened fined and I could treat it normally. However, most of it results in a ASCII Filter Options popup that asks for Character set, default fonts, language, paragraph break, etc. For the character set I choose the default "Western Europe(Windows 1252/WinLatin1)" option but my resume was a gibberish of symbols and breaks.

    Will opening it with Microsoft Office help it or should I pick a specific setting for the popup in order to view the files properly? Thanks! :)
     
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    Try opening it with a wordpad. See if that works?
     
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    tried that as well. I have also tried renaming it so that it is no longer a .doc extension. Am I all out of luck? I wont be able to get the Office CD until next week so that may be my only hope. At the moment I dont think the file is corrupt, but how else can I get it to view properly?
     
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