WORD DOC IS COMING UP IN GIBERISH

[JeffC]

I had made a word doc back in February and now when I open it a File
Conversion dialog box opens up and the text is all gibberish. The dialog
ask's me to select a text encoding. It gives me 3 options, Windows
(Default), MS-DOS, or Other Encoding. The document doesn’t include any
imbedded objects. It’s just plain text. Below is a sample of what I see
when I open it up.

PK ! ¹¢k ¬ [Content_Types].xml ¢ (






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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Has it been saved to a removable drive at some point?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[JeffC]

Nope.

Has it been saved to a removable drive at some point?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

I had made a word doc back in February and now when I open it a File
Conversion dialog box opens up and the text is all gibberish. The dialog
ask's me to select a text encoding. It gives me 3 options, Windows
(Default), MS-DOS, or Other Encoding. The document doesn’t include any
imbedded objects. It’s just plain text. Below is a sample of what I see
when I open it up.

PK ! ¹¢k ¬ [Content_Types].xml ¢ (






´UMKÃ@ ½
þ‡°Wi¶z ‘¦ ü8jÃ
^×ÃI»¸_ìLÕþ{7i ¤´imÈ% ¼÷æÛÉèîÇšì
"jï
vâ„¢ Y Nz¥ì`oÓ§Ã
Ë„SÂx [ ²»ñùÙhº

 

[Tony Jollans]

That looks like a zip file. What is the document's file extension - and have
you ever changed it?

 

[Jay Freedman]

It is, in fact, what a Word 2007 (*.docx) file looks like when viewed in a hex
editor. The .docx format is really a zip file containing XML files and other
things, including the [Content_Types].xml file at the top level.

If you have Word 2007, or an earlier version with the Compatibility Pack, try
renaming the file with the .docx extension.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all
may benefit.

That looks like a zip file. What is the document's file extension - and have
you ever changed it?

--
Enjoy,
Tony

www.WordArticles.com

I had made a word doc back in February and now when I open it a File
Conversion dialog box opens up and the text is all gibberish. The dialog
ask's me to select a text encoding. It gives me 3 options, Windows
(Default), MS-DOS, or Other Encoding. The document doesn’t include any
imbedded objects. It’s just plain text. Below is a sample of what I see
when I open it up.

PK ! ¹¢k ¬ [Content_Types].xml ¢ (






´UMKÃ@ ½
þ‡°Wi¶z ‘¦ ü8jÁ
^×ÝI»¸_ìLÕþ{7i ¤´imÈ% ¼÷æÍ›ÉèîÇšì
"jï
v™ Y Nz¥Ý¬`oÓ§Á
Ë?„SÂx [ ²»ñùÙhº

 

[JeffC]

Jay,

That was the problem. Some how it got renamed to a doc file. I'm using
office 2003, so why would it be saved as a docx file if I didn't convert it
to that format?

Jeff

It is, in fact, what a Word 2007 (*.docx) file looks like when viewed in a hex
editor. The .docx format is really a zip file containing XML files and other
things, including the [Content_Types].xml file at the top level.

If you have Word 2007, or an earlier version with the Compatibility Pack, try
renaming the file with the .docx extension.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all
may benefit.

That looks like a zip file. What is the document's file extension - and have
you ever changed it?

--
Enjoy,
Tony

www.WordArticles.com

I had made a word doc back in February and now when I open it a File
Conversion dialog box opens up and the text is all gibberish. The dialog
ask's me to select a text encoding. It gives me 3 options, Windows
(Default), MS-DOS, or Other Encoding. The document doesn’t include any
imbedded objects. It’s just plain text. Below is a sample of what I see
when I open it up.

PK ! ¹¢k ¬ [Content_Types].xml ¢ (






´UMKÃ@ ½
þ‡°Wi¶z ‘¦ ü8jÃ
^×ÃI»¸_ìLÕþ{7i ¤´imÈ% ¼÷æÛÉèîÇšì
"jï
vâ„¢ Y Nz¥ì`oÓ§Ã
Ë?„SÂx [ ²»ñùÙhº

 

[Jay Freedman]

I can't say definitely what happened, but if you do have the Compat Pack,
it's possible to make it save in .docx format. Could there be a macro or
add-in somewhere in your computer that did it?

Jay,

That was the problem. Some how it got renamed to a doc file. I'm
using office 2003, so why would it be saved as a docx file if I
didn't convert it to that format?

Jeff

It is, in fact, what a Word 2007 (*.docx) file looks like when
viewed in a hex editor. The .docx format is really a zip file
containing XML files and other things, including the
[Content_Types].xml file at the top level.

If you have Word 2007, or an earlier version with the Compatibility
Pack, try renaming the file with the .docx extension.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

That looks like a zip file. What is the document's file extension -
and have you ever changed it?

--
Enjoy,
Tony

www.WordArticles.com


I had made a word doc back in February and now when I open it a
File Conversion dialog box opens up and the text is all gibberish.
The dialog ask's me to select a text encoding. It gives me 3
options, Windows (Default), MS-DOS, or Other Encoding. The
document doesn't include any imbedded objects. It's just plain
text. Below is a sample of what I see when I open it up.

PK ! ¹¢k ¬ [Content_Types].xml ¢ (






´UMKÃ@ ½
þ?°Wi¶z '¦ ü8jÁ
^×ÝI»¸_ìLÕþ{7i ¤´imÈ% ¼÷æÍ>ÉèîÇsì
"jï
vT Y Nz¥Ý¬`oÓ§Á
Ë?"SÂx [ ²»ñùÙhº