Text Edit wont open

Last night I noticed that all my text edit pages had a load of techno gibberish throughout the page. This morning it won't open at all. I double click it faints to open but zilch. Any Ideas.

Move the com.apple.textedit plist file out of the user's Library/Preferences/ folder onto the Desktop, restart, and try again.

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