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by: Howdydoody0193 January 18, 2013 4:05 AM PST

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by Howdydoody0193 - 1/18/13 4:05 AM

HI,
had a visit from Messrs Agent and Vilset which corrupted a number of Office programmes. I eventually got MS Money to run but my Word and Spreadsheet documents are in heiroglyphs. Keep getting the ASCII box but when corrected does no good. Also lost Restore Points on Sys. Restore which would have been a big help.
Any adcice as to how I could get back into my W and S/S ( and if possible old Restore Points ) would be gratefully received.

UTBFTO

Tony


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Re: MS Office

by Kees_B Moderator - 1/18/13 4:43 AM

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The first thing to do: find out if the program is corrupted or those files are corrupted. So copy a few files to a USB-stick and see what they look like on another machine.

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by Howdydoody0193 - 1/19/13 7:55 AM

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I'm using Open Office for my Word and Spreadsheet documents. Seems to be okay with new files but the ones previous to the virus are encoded. Tried them on another PC with O/O and it still didn't rectify.

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So your old documents are encoded.

by Kees_B Moderator - 1/19/13 12:45 PM

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Then you restore the latest correct version from your backup and you're done. That's why you backup, isn't it?

And, by the way, your documents aren't saved in System Restore.

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If you have Windows 7 or 8, use "Previous versions"

by wpgwpg - 1/19/13 12:56 PM

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Since you didn't say what version of Windows you have, I don't know whether this would help you.

When you've gotten your system back like you want it, I urge you to get yourself an external hard drive and a good 3rd party backup program. You can set it up to do everything automagically at the time and frequency of your choice. 1 TB external hard drives are about $70 these days and a really good FREE backup program is the Easeus todo backup free which you can download from
http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm . That can save you a lot of time and frustration the next time something like this happens. Sooner or later it happens to all computers for one reason or another.

Good luck.


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