Lost two paragraphs in word

I added this book (https://books.google.no/books?id=ir34DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inside+jokes+dennett&hl=no&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=inside jokes dennett&f=false) to my sources using the zotero browser extension.

When I went into my word document (saved online for automatic saving ofc) and added the source, I got a half a page worth of gibberish. Without thinking much about it, I hit backspace and saw not only the reference disappear, but also the two last paragraphs I wrote. Weirder still: using Ctrl + Z starts removing words from a paragraph I wrote yesterday(!). The last version that's automatically saved is from an hour ago.

This may be a bug with Word (indeed it seems likely), but it all started with what looked like a bug in zotero. I've tried to replicate it, but on every subsequent try the reference came out fine.

I still wanted to mention it (even though I may have screwed up in a way that I didn't notice), on the off-chance that there is something worth looking into here, or perhaps others have had a similar experience. And also; it could have been much, much worse :-)
  • "half a page of gibberish" is almost certainly just Word field codes, controlled by a Word display setting. It sometimes gets switched to the wrong setting, but it's trivial to fix.

    (The plugin disables change tracking to avoid causing problems, hence previous paragraphs being removed with Undo, I'm not sure why you would lose anything — just use Redo?)
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