Corrupt file. My entire manuscript just turned into small squares.

[wytxny]

My entire manuscript just turned into pages of small squares. What caused it? How can I fix it?

[Stefan Blom]

Have you tried Open and Repair?

For more on damaged documents, take a look at How to troubleshoot damaged Word documents.

[Welshie82]

What happens if you try changing the font of a paragraph? Highlight the paragraph, change to a different font and see if it restores. Perhaps the font file you were using has corrupted, rather than the document.