As I read in another thread, and just tried out now, while it looks jacked up from google doc vagrants, you can press the green button at the top right, then click on the word that says "viewing". It will pause for a little bit, then go to the original, un-jacked up version that the creator had made. At least, it worked for me anyways. No idea if it will work for everyone.
That worked! Takes it a while to load all the gobbledygook before the green button shows up but the document is indeed still intact under view mode. Thanks so much!