Hello and thanks for all the answers.
At first I tried to open the text file with Notepad, results were giberish. Then I opened Word and tried to open the file from there, also the same results.
But then I right-clicked on the file and in the sub menu there was an Open at the upper end, and just a little lower were 3 options more, open with.. Notepad, Word 2016, Wordpad. I selected the second option and walla ! the file opened correctly, made some copies to be safe, saved it once as unicode, as UTF-8, and as a word document.
I cannot understand why it opened giberish when I first launched Word and tried to open the file from there,
However, there was a problem and solved.
Thanks again for all the answers
Motim