Empty document

I’ve worked a few dozens of hours in Microsoft Word and I opened it up on my mint machine today to make a few changes, later I opened it on my windows machine with Word and the document is empty. when I choose to open it with wordpad, the content is there but the tables aren’t, so I cant just copy and paste… please help me

It’s not an answer, but can you open the “empty” document on your mint machine? If so you can try to save it in an older Word format (.doc) which may work.

anyone? ive worked so much for this and now I’ll have to start from the beginning ?