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Important docs gone 'encrypted'!!!

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For reasons beyond my comprehension the most important documents (apart from letting-related ones) have suddenly decided to become encrypted. I can open them only because I happened to have sent them to someone else a few months ago, and I still have the email in my sent box, but they open in Google Drive and although in theory it allows me to make modifications I can't find a way to save the changes.

These docs are the latest draft of my book and I am desperate to do some editing and I also need to be able to convert it to pdf if I hope to e-publish.

Any tecchies got any ideas?? All suggestions gratefully received.
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Just realised what you're asking - you don't need to convert it to pdf. Whether you go the traditional route or self-publish on Amazon you need a Word doc.

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I must have expressed myself badly - in panic mode! I really want to get back to a Word doc rather than Google Drive. I have no idea how I finished up with that and the original Word docs seem to have been lost in the computer melt down!

I thought I read somewhere that you had to be in pdf for e-pub?

Edited to say - sorry just read your reply in Members section TC - many thanks!
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if you do download instead of view, you should be able to download them to Word again.
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I thought I should be able to but the download won't open - I have done it several times and all I have is lots of duplicate docs which won't open! :evil:
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Can you save to RTF? I think you'll lose your formatting, but that seems to be the least of your worries at the moment. Then you could save the RTF file to Word. These suggestions may be rubbish as I don't know what version of Word you're using.

Nightowl and e-Richard are usually clued up on these things.

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Thanks TC. Technoprat question: what is RTF?? Using regular original Word on this machine but the poorly machine has Starter version.
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Well I seem to have taken a step forward in that it has allowed me to download into Word (Word is 2003), but it all comes out in caps and I can't work out how to get it back to upper and lower case!
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Highlight and Shift+f3 will convert it all to lowercase, then I think if you do it again, it will put the correct capitals back.
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Brilliant, thank you Helen, that worked! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Glad you've got it sorted. RTF is Rich Text Format. I'm not very technical myself but it's a mode that comes in useful if you want to swap stuff between different versions of Word.

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