After installing the free download for Windows 10, I reopened some Word documents that have been an ongoing project for the past 8 years. They are long and complex documents including images, artwork and Chinese characters. I found that the formatting of these documents has been completely ruined! Everything has been moved around, some characters have been layered onto of one another and to top it off, the two fonts used for the entirety of the documents have been changed to another plainer font. After checking the Word fonts, lots of them have disappeared, including the ones I use, and when I tried to import one of the old fonts in from a back up file, Word simply did not recognise it!
Does anyone know what has happened? Does Windows 10 automatically update to a newer version of Word when you install it? Is there any way to revert back to the way these documents were before the update? Manually reformatting them will take an estimated 1-2 years of work
I tried looking at doing a system restore but there are no pre-saved restore points so haven't had any luck there, don't even know if it would work anyway...
Any help or advice would be SO appreciated

There have been many reports of problems with Office after a Windows 10 'upgrade'. See the discussions at: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...ion&status=all. Have you tried repairing the Office installation (via Programs & Features > Microsoft Office > Change in the Windows Control Panel)?

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Paul Edstein
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Thanks for your response! I haven't tried repairing the office installation, do you think that could be a way to return the files to their previous formatting?
I'll have a good look at the link you've provided too, thanks

What you're seeing isn't necessarily a result of document corruption, but of a faulty Office installation, so repairing it may well restore the document formatting.

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I'll give it a try, thanks Paul

No, it didn't work unfortunately