Part of my "saved" word documents have disappeared. Can you help please

[Jill4949]

I have a folder of word documents that are saved - before I email each document I always change them to PDF. My problem is that all the documents that are in word format have partially disappeared, and I am only able to see the middle third of every "Word" item in the folder. Is there some way I can retrieve the full view of the items and restore them to the original saved item. I have been using this folder to create and re-create invoices for years and I'm not sure what has hapenned and why? Your help and suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[WAD]

did you corrupt it in anyway?

 

[Jill4949]

I am not sure what has happened - but it seems strange that ALL documents in this folder and there are 30 + have been affected the same way. The top of the document as well as text in the body of the document - have disappeared. I can still see a part of the document but only about one third. My problem is not knowing how to revert back to the original saved document, and even whether I can. (Also not too experienced in troubleshooting - and would need simple clear instructions to follow
Cheers.

 

[benali72]

First, I would make a copy of everything you have so you don't get in worse shape through recovery efforts. Just copy the whole Folder somewhere else safe as a backup.

Are you saying that you open one of the documents in Word, and you only see a third of it while in Word?

Usually if a document is corrupted in some way, Word will ask you if you want to recover it when you try to open it. If it asks you to recovery, say YES.

Another option-- download and install free LibreOffice. Then try to the open the document with that. I've found that sometimes LibreOffice can recover a corrupted document that Word will not.

Please provide more description on exactly what you're doing. Thanks.

 

[Jill4949]

Thanks for your input - I will try that if I cant retreive doc simply. What I have discovered since your post is I can print the document and can bring the document up in print preview - I am just not able to see the whole document. By the way - I am using an older version of microsoft word.
Cheers

 

[hang-the-9]

So the text is all there then since you can print it. Did you change some of it to a comment or some other format? Try changing the view of the document, set it to Print View, I use that view as my default anyway. Another thing you can try is to select all the text (edit - select all), and change the font and format to something all at once, you will probably have to do some clean up on the document if you have formats you need to change after that.