Saved document to Word and reopened it in a strange text!

Does anyone know how to get a document a saved in word...which the next time I opened it came up as random shapes and such...back to normal??
I swear I have tried everything.
I never saved it on to anything but the hard drive of the same specific computer.
Thanks,
Kayti

Most of the time, you can find a way to bring the document closer to its original form - but sometimes the saved document is permanently altered. Your easiest option would, of course, to use Time Machine, but it doesn't sound like you have a second drive. In Leopard, with an attached drive, you can bring back any number of versions of old or deleted documents. It sounds like you already know this.
Sometimes, it's best to find a way to bring the document as close to its original form as possible, and edit it into shape.
I've had excellent luck with Text Wrangler 2.2.1, available as a free download. View the document as Soft Text, and you should find the virgin text (in between the formatting, which you'll have to delete).

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