Man,...I sure hope someone has a fix for this:

Today I opened up my book that I'm writing in Word03 and much to my horror, noticed not only was it shorter than I had left off (about 4 pages shorter) but the last part of the last page was converted in some sort of encrypted gibberish that looked exactly like this:

“ Teddy, you have been thrown around into some pretty uncomfortable situations in your short time here on this planet. I know it has beenØ4¹;›K__pF¸%ñ_#É_M_˜AÔj_+ö_;h)_Ÿ¯;5¸¥ ;z~Â;¹R•¹ˆÊ¹x–ƒ;P¹üœ±º.¿h;õ4_;óŸï9È?s;ìôÄ;eã”;ø_ :ŒŽc;~_*;W_ݺ€¹íº¯_“;½‘=»ÆêÞ»__;ƒ_òºþeî»D1à:Ù„V9y” _¼¶Y_»«`¦¹Ãã_¼'0#¼Q4»;–/¼_Ìt¼•”+¼ÃÙ_¼_´Ž¼_Œ‰¼æÛ_¼53W¼#±Ž¼JªA¼Íé^¼üV¥¼¨Ý–¼h ±’¼_ƒµ¼’àü9I¿¼ã¬µ¼�Z½¼fû¼¼QÖ¼‡q›¼_B¯¼ “‚¼Y×~¼


Desperate, I have tried embedding and running a macro (sub symbol convert) straight from Microsoft, and it did not help whatsoever.

Then I tried two apps online that supposedly recover Word Docs,...but they proved worthless as the trouble is not in recovering the file,..BUT recovering the text in the file!



Before I have to rewrite these pages,...does anyone know what could have caused this (Virus check proved OK)? Anyone know how to decipher that gibberish I pasted above?