I saved the file directly to the flash drive after typing in one of the computers in our comp. laboratory, I used office 2010 but saved it in office 2003 format. When i got home and opened the file in my PC, all the text/paragraphs are displayed in square boxes. I'm using office 2003 at home. I tried font formatting, open and repair, converting to other file types, opened the file in same PC where i encoded. Please give me some links and other recommendations. The contents of the file are parts of my thesis... thanx