When a document is corrupted?

I’m sorry. I don’t suppose you have it backed up on any other device, such as a flash drive?

@Jeruba When I transferred it to my flash drive, it said that it was corrupted too.

A good routine backup practice (after this) is to alternate backup devices, so that if the last one is compromised, you still have the preceding one, clean. You don’t overwrite the preceding one until you’re sure your current one is good.

There are services that you can pay to recover data. Our big local electronics retailer has a team that did it for me once.

Too late now, but you should probably have your documents folder mapped to Dropbox. If anything happens to your doc, you can revert back to any previously-saved point.

Can you try opening it in plain old notepad?

@tom_g I hadn’t realized you could do that on Dropbox.

@tom_g I did that too, and codes and binary came up.

If you have anything printed out in hard copy, it could be OCR-scanned. That’d be something. It would need a careful proofing, but at least it wouldn’t be a total loss.

Used to be the Norton Utilities could recover most of the text. I have not tried that in a long time.