CS5 file busted - need urgent help

i've got file, it's text, no images.

 

i created grep style square tick boxes, using wingdings glyph (i copied , pasted glyph grep style appears little square, did not think use unicode)

 

now file won't go anywhere, can't adjust styles, can't move text.

 

in find font comes wingdings bold missing. replace , it's still there.

 

 

i tried on machine, , no avail, came warning used in conditional text (which presume it's talking grep style?)

 

 

i can't copy or cut text out of document.

i can't export file rtf

i can't export file idml

 

i've had designer on mac (i'm on windows) take , works externally. , crashed on him too.

 

 

this file working fine yesterday - i've completed setting (it's 30 pages) there's lot of intricate things. start again - don't want go route if can avoid it.

 

 

how going fix file?

ok got rid of grep style - kept crashing when trying remove it.

 

but - deleted pages bar first page (all frames threaded)

 

i created new document - , used same style name.

 

i copied frame old doc new doc.

 

and reflowed frames.

 

the grep style gone.

 

they don't have character styles, or nested styles applied

 

 

now want take paragraph of text , box off - i'm converting text 1 celled tables

 

but random characters have wingdings applied character style tick boxes randomly applied letters , punctuation?

 

before

 

 

after

 

 

notice way  things bold not bold in after, , wingdings character being used.

 

 

this happens after convert text table or create new table , copy , paste text in.

 

again, i've checked grep , nested styles.

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