There's rarely anything magic about computers. That's because they give off
a lot of EMI. It prevents the magic from being able to have an effect on
your documents. You should see the effect it has on my crystal ball.

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

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"Gandor" wrote in message
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Hi!

I thought so. I just hoped for some magic. Thanks for answering.

Gandor

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The document is corrupt. You cannot somehow magic the missing data back
into
existence.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Gandor wrote:
I was writing in a word document that I had saved in a USB memory. I
had
nothing saved at the hard drive, stupidly me. Suddenly it crashed and
the
document weren't to be found on the USB memory stick. Later on I
found a
rescue saved txt.file on my harddrive. I tried to read it both in
Word,
notepad and wordpad, but I could just read some parts of the text.

It looks like this "????????????????????????????? small text
part????????????e???????
################################################## ###
text part????????????????????????????????? longer text
part?????????????
me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????
and so on ################################################## ###
Pleace,help
me???????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????"

Can I somehow read/translate the ?-marks in the between.