When I deleted some text from my test file and did this procedure, here’s what I saw: In the middle of it, however, you should be able to find all your missing text. ![]() Click “OK” and you’ll see lots of junk, typographical notations, and other miscellany. There are lots of choices, but I’ve highlighted the one you want: Recover Text from Any File. Now open up the file with the missing text and you’ll be asked if you want to use a converter: Select the Confirm conversion at Open option (it’s right by the mouse cursor) and click “OK”. ![]() In Microsoft Office XP, that’s done by creating a blank document (so you can get to the Options preference, otherwise it’s grayed out), then selecting Tools –> Options and clicking on the General tab. What you need to do is enable document conversion on open. Now, the challenge is how to access that data. You’ll find that the new version of the file, the version that has all the archival data purged, is often dramatically smaller than the original. One way you can see that this is the case is by doing a “Save As…” on a document you’ve been editing for a while. ![]() You might not realize it, but Microsoft Word actually keeps somewhat of a history of your document in the file, even when it looks like there’s nothing there and even when you have revision tracking turned off.
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