So I'm writing on behalf of my girlfriend who has had a pretty big problem earlier.
She is finishing her dissertation which is due on monday when she went to scan some things, when she looked back at MS Word her document was pretty much unrecognisable.
This is what it looks like when I open it in textedit, It had a word count of over 7000, and when I open it in word it has 7600 for a split second, and then it starts to decrease down to 1800 by itself.
The word document itself appears as:
The whole document follows this trend, this is page 23 and as you can see it is flooded with "23" and the same goes for all the pages unto 66, which are all flooded with their relevant page number.
I have scoured the internet for hours now trying to find someone who has encountered the same thing or trying to find a solution.
I have tried opening it in different programs such as open office, have mailed the file to a window laptop and opening it on there, have converted it to html, rich text and so on. I cannot find anything to try and solve it. She is re doing it all as I type this but it would be a big help if I could get it back somewhat intact.
Thanks in advance
She is finishing her dissertation which is due on monday when she went to scan some things, when she looked back at MS Word her document was pretty much unrecognisable.

This is what it looks like when I open it in textedit, It had a word count of over 7000, and when I open it in word it has 7600 for a split second, and then it starts to decrease down to 1800 by itself.
The word document itself appears as:

The whole document follows this trend, this is page 23 and as you can see it is flooded with "23" and the same goes for all the pages unto 66, which are all flooded with their relevant page number.
I have scoured the internet for hours now trying to find someone who has encountered the same thing or trying to find a solution.
I have tried opening it in different programs such as open office, have mailed the file to a window laptop and opening it on there, have converted it to html, rich text and so on. I cannot find anything to try and solve it. She is re doing it all as I type this but it would be a big help if I could get it back somewhat intact.
Thanks in advance
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