Why are some of my word documents scrambled after upgrading to snow leopard?

I just upgraded my desktop to 10.6.8 and I am experiencing more troubles....
1.  4-5 computer freezes per day and I only use it for about 2 hours.
2.  My word documents are empty, only showing red squiggle lines as if something is spelled wrong.
No idea how to fix.  Anyone?

Maybe your PDF file is composed of pictures? Can you select any of the text
in it, or does it select the entire page as a whole? If the latter, then
you can try to run Text Recognition on it before exporting it to Word.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:53 PM, phantom205 <[email protected]>

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