MS Word Problem: Text Replaced with Squares in the Documents

How often have you seen your document displaying square box-like characters? May be, you have never seen such a thing, but the fact is that it happens very often. This situation commonly arises when the document gets corrupted. In most cases, a corrupt document displays some unusual characters and hence the data stored in it cannot be read. To get your original data back, use a backup file. But, this measure works only if you have a valid backup file. In case the backup is not available, corrupt, or it falls short of restoring the data, then use a word repair software to retrieve all the data completely from the corrupted Word document.

A businessman who is a regular user of MS Word explicates his problem:

“Two days back, my friend called me up and told me about his issue. He had created a few Word documents, that started showing some weird signs and characters lately. The text, symbols or characters were replaced by some weird square shaped characters.
Surprisingly, he had all his documents stored in the 'My documents' folder and none of them is spared. All the documents display the same behavior.”

Reason:
Word documents usually display this kind of behavior when they have encountered corruption. Owing to this, the document usually do not open and even if they open, they exhibit strange or alien characters instead of the text that you entered. So, all the previously entered data becomes unreadable or inaccessible.

Now, let us assist the businessman in solving his friend's problem.
Resolution:
Consider the following measures to resolve the problem:

Use 'Detect and Repair' feature to recover the contents of the corrupted or damaged Word documents.
You may also search for a template file of MS Word, named normal.dot and delete or rename it. On starting Word again, a blank template file will be created in case of deletion of normal.dot. This template file is prone to corruption and does lead to many problems.
Running an anti-virus with updated DAT files is also a way of securing your MS Word file.

If all these measures fail, then you are left with no other option but to Repair Word documents using a powerful third-party word recovery software. These applications incorporate most efficient scanning algorithms to do so.. The main feature of these applications is that they do not overwrite or change the original settings and contents of the file while restoring. Also, these software are equipped with interactive graphical user interface that makes them user-friendly and self-explanatory.

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