Word 2008 format changed problem

Hello everybody.
I worked on this nice essay for a week, I went to school to print it on a Mac with an older version of Word (I think 2003/4) and before I could say stop, the guy in charge of the printer clicked the "Recover Text from Any File" when the convert file pop-up window came up and basically changed the format of my document making it unusable.
Is there any way I can reverse the process or at least recover just the text?
I tried a lot of options, but none seemed to work.
Please Please
Please this is very important,
All the Best, Rudy

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