iPad isssue with Microsoft word

[Night_Skies]

Hello,
That was just a very small portion of the actual full dock.
The actual dock is 167 pages long .

[Night_Skies]

Alls I want to know is how I get that gibberish writing back to the regular text that I so desperately need for work .
Any suggestions ?
Night

[fink]

Was the original document 167 pages or close to that? That's a LOT of data esp if it's been corrupted. Out of curiosity have you tried opening that doc on other computers?

[Night_Skies]

Good Morning ,
Yes it was 167 (give or take) pages long .
Yes I have tried to open it on other devices . All of which are mine , I’m beginning to think because the word program is registered to me on all devices and are synced , that it won’t open it , Just a thought …..
I should mention it has images in the document also , screenshot of various
work related images . I know it’s long and never really thought that it couldn’t be recovered if anything happened to it esp since I placed a copy of it in my email ( but that opens in that gibberish writing also . Geesh am I LOST without that doc , I have to keep trying to recover passwords and secret questions to recover passwords and it’s rough . I’ve certainly learned my lesson !
Thanks Fink ,
Night

[fink]

So now we know you had a second copy of the doc in your email. That's important info since the copy would not likely be corrupted and there is/was no need to try and find a possible second deleted copy on the hard drive.

Have you tried opening it on a computer, Windows or iOS, that isn't registered to you? Perhaps others here will have more ideas at this point... I am not very familiar with iOS systems.

[Night_Skies]

Hello,
Yes I have tried to open it on another iOS device but it was registered to me but with a different version of word , but not any other computers , or windows devices not registered to me …. Good Idea ! However if I’m lucky 🤞🏻And can open it on a say windows device , won’t it theoretically keep a copy of it on their computer also , as this doc is work sensitive ….
Night

[fink]

won’t it theoretically keep a copy of it on their computer also

Not if you keep the doc on a thumb drive and open it from there for extra security. Once you close the word app then there would be no copy of it on the drive.

[jdc2000]

You could keep it on a drive like this for maximum security:

https://www.kanguru.com/products/kan...-0-flash-drive