word document corrupted

Does anyone have a solution to this?. An important wordpad document have been damaged by too many saves, about half the text is gone and replaced with these characters \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ .

I had the same problem with a .doc document a year ago and found a simple solution on a forum, i could fix it in the word program, but i cannot remember what i did to fix it = /.

I have tried to highlight all the text and change the text to Arial, etc. I have also tried to copy the text and open the document in other programs without success.

 

Welcome to BBS,

This software looks like it should do the job:

http://www.repairmyword.com/

As far as I can tell this is free software but cannot be sure without using it.

I guess your OS is windows XP?