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Originally Posted by Gillingham
...wordpad [...] when I opened it [...] half has just gone to weird text/ symbols like shown below [...] will I be able to get my original document back?
Probably not. What format is it saved as? .rtf for example? Only part of the doc going weird is a clue. WordPad from Microsoft is a miniature word processor that supports "rich text format" [rtf] a document in WordPad can be saved in a variety of different formats, but it was built for .rtf.
Assuming you didn't simply have a file corruption there are two causes I can think of:
[1] If your notes are typed into the document you will have no problems, but if you copy/paste from a non-supported format into WordPad it can look fine in the place you copied from but look like gibberish in the place you pasted to.
[2] Same as above, but worse - some poker players purposefully choose Screen Names that contain special characters which don't convert correctly in HM2, PT4 etc - this is to defeat datamining & being tracked. Some of these characters arranged in the right order can execute as code [or macros] when copied into some file formats [.xml for example] - not sure that can happen in WordPad. I remember years ago my old HM2 notes/colours file was only a few kilobytes until I took a note at the table on a particular player... Within 10 minutes HM2 was unusable & it froze. Took me a long time to figure out my notes/colours file in HM2 had grown to gigabytes & it kept growing like crazy when I opened HM2. The player name was happily making copies of itself. I think that was a .xml file format.
Anyway, if you want to take notes including copy/paste then open a new document & before using it name it & save it as .txt document [select save as "plain text document" in WordPad] or simply use the Windows Notepad program which I think can only uses .txt format. Notepad is better anyway - it can't preserve special formatting which is something I like most of the time.
