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Problem with word document

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Craig234

Lifer
Someone sent me a word document on a floppy. It's password protected.

When I open the doc, it comes up and shows a graphic, but the text looks like it's in a foreign language, like hebrew or russian.

I'm entering the right password, because if I change it it says wrong password.

Changing the font doesn't help.

I'm on Windows XP, Word 2002 SP3.

Any suggestions?
 
Its on a floppy, i'd suggest that its damaged at first glance or the transfer wasnt completely successful, have you tried it on another machine?
 
Not yet - not many machines stilll have floppies that I have access to... I'm worried about a damaged file too, but it's funny that for a 22k file, it knows the right password and thinks it loaded ok, so I wonder if it's damaged.

Also, the text looks pretty normally formatted, with words and spaces, but it's just in this odd font. If I change it to a normal font, it turns into little boxes.

I could e-mail the binary to someone if they're willing to try to salvage it...
 
Thanks for the tip, but it's in US English. It just looks like some foreign language. I still have not been able to see the content. Argh.

I wonder if there's any sort of binary editor that might be able to recover some of the info.
 
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