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Cannot Read Restored Word Document
Hello. I am having a problem. I reformatted by Hard Drive a while ago and backed everything up in 7 CD's, as it prompted me to. I used an external DVD drive to do this.
When this was done, I re-installed MS Office 97 from the old installation disc I had.
Now, I really need to restore one of the files that are on the backup discs. I have located the MS Word file I want (which was also typed in Word 97), and have restored it. However, I cannot read it...it is all gibberish.
I am not too knowledgeable about computers and do not know what to do. I tried some free decrypting software but it does not work...always gives me some error message.
I did not do anything to encrypt any file when I was creating my backup discs so I am not sure what happened.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot
Daffodil123