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At work we use Google and store a lot of documents on the Drive. Up until now we've not had any issues with converting Word documents to Google Docs but recently all Word documents are being "mangled" during the conversion.
In this example I created a new file with the single word "Hello" in it; after uploading and opening as a Google Docs I get this:
Can anyone suggest how to fix this and/or explain why it's happening?
You can download and convert a Google Docs to a MS Office Word Document.
Click the arrow on the Actions link for the file you want to convert and select Download... (Note the ellipsis)
The following Convert and Download window will appear, select the Microsoft Word option
To convert a document, right click on it inside Google Drive. Choose Open with → Google Docs. A new window will be opened with the document in Google Docs format and it is saved inside the same folder in your Google Drive.
Best Answer
I have found that changing the setting to "Convert uploaded files to Google Docs editor format" allows the files to be converted correctly.
This does not explain why conversion of uploaded files fails but it solves my problem for now.