please help me, i am sobbing because i think my essay is gone?

Question

i typed an essay in times new roman font on Microsoft word 2007. everything was fine, but then it changed my font to Times New Roman (Body Asian). The paragraph I was typing was in regular times new roman, so I saved it. Then my Microsoft word stopped working and I had to close it. So, then i opened my document and it was all in Times New Roman (Body Asian) (except for the last paragraph that i was doing). I've tried selecting the font and changing it back to regular times new roman, but it won't change from asain. Now, when i highlight the text it says it's reg times new roman, but its not, its still asain. HOW do i change it back or is it not possible since i saved it with the asian font? also i was thinking maybe i could restore my computer to last night, so I'd at least have the beginning of my essay that i saved, but when i restore my computer it won't change the word documents will it?

Answer 1

You need to install the latest Word updates. Your Word is unstable and that's why it's acting so weird. The only way to get it healthy is to get the updates on it.



The fastest way to do this is to go to microsoft.com, look for downloads, click it, and then install them.



If you don't get them installed, you're going to keep having weird issues down the road. Microsoft products (Windows and Office especially) have bugs in their software and Microsoft releases patches throughout the years to install to fix these bugs. Many people refuse to install them, but you're only hurting yourself in the long run if you don't because of the crashes.

Answer 2

Last answer first: Restoring will not affect any data you may have. Pictures, documents, etc.



There's one odd thing about what you are saying.



In the event of a system crash or any other thing that causes Word to close abnormally, the next time you open it, it ALWAYS has a 'window' opened on the left side of Word asking whether you want to recover the document that wasn't saved properly or whether you want to conitue editing as is.



You didn't see that? Did it not offer you the chance?



If you have all your document and just a few things that won't act right, it's probably still able to be fixed.



One way that I use sometimes is that since Word documents have a tremendous amount of formatting going on in the background, I try to 'strip' the formatting from it then paste it back in kind of a 'raw' state and then re-apply the formatting that I want it to ultimately have.



I'm sure there are easier ways but the quick way I always use is to select the whole text then right-click and 'Copy'.



Mow right-click on the Desktop (or anywhere you please, really) and point to New, then Text Document.



Double-click the new text document and right-click in it then Paste.



You'll probably have to scroll down straightening things out but once you get done copy and paste it back into a blank Word document

Answer 3

Most important: DON'T PANIC!



Now, before you do _ANYTHING_ else, make a backup copy (through the OS, i.e. Windows - don't even start up Word) of your essay and store it somewhere safe - not on that computer. No matter what state it's in.



Next, make another copy of your essay.



Now, you can start messing around with that second copy, trying to restore it, or restore the computer without fearing to terminally destroy anything. I'd try asking the MS problem database for similar problems - or, if I was confident enough in my backups, try a 'select all' on the text, then change the font to something completely different like Arial or Helvetica. If that works - save it, shut down Word, make backup copies. Then start up Word again and try to restore the Helvetica version to Times New Roman.



See what comes from using Word? Just be glad it only was a short essay and not a (un-backupped) Thesis that got scrambled when you tried to move that picture on page 98[1].





[1]Nope, didn't happen to me nor to any of my colleagues - in our area, basically everyone is using LaTeX.

Answer 4

Not sure what you have done but this is a fix most office workers know highlight all and copy then open a new document.



Select paste not paste special that will paste the unformatted text into a new document and you can then change the font and re format the paragraph's.