Find in Files and Replace- Affected files cannot be opened.
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I used the Find in Files and replace feature to replace a section of text in some files. The affected files can no longer be opened with a standard text editor.
How do I fix this without opening every single one and exporting it again?
“Word experienced an error trying to open the file. Try these steps:” Blah blah blah.
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to replace a section of text in some files
What kind of files?
can no longer be opened with a standard text editor
Not sure what you mean? Can’t notepad++ open them?
Word experienced an error trying to open the file.
If you did a find/replace on Word documents then yeah you are going to screw them up.
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Yes, I did a find/replace on .doc documents.
I am glad I didn’t do more files.
I am able to recover them individually by restoring a previous version. Is there any other fix ye know of that may be faster?
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Is there any other fix ye know of that may be faster?
Nope.
