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 Text and Maybe
Formatting From
Corrupt MS Word Files

Recovering Word
97-2003 Documents

Those in bold type are quick fixes

  1. Check out Microsoft's own screenshot illustrated advice: How to troubleshoot damaged Word documents.

  2. Check out Tech Republic's 10+ ways to recover a corrupted Word document.

  3. Try opening Word with the command line
    "winword.exe /a". This causes Word to ignore the normal.dot (default template) file and default preferences (in the Registry). If there is a problem in the normal.dot or Registry, Word should open and perhaps your file will open normally, as well.- Via  hafizullah@techrepublic.com post.

  4. Using "Open and Repair" facilities in Word.

  5. Use the "Extract Text From Any Document" facility in Word.

  6. Try to convert the text using a text/data extracting/converter service like: DOCX-Converter, Zamzar, Cometdocs, YouConvertIt 
    DocMorphFreeFileConvert and probably others.

  7. Try the freeware Repair My Word. Note - this doesn't work with Word 2007 and 2010 format docx files.

  8. Try the free corrupt file text/data extracting service saveofficedata.com.

  9. Try the open source command line app by SilverCoders' doctotext.

  10. Try opening the Word file in another Office Suite or Word Processor - Wikipedia's List of Office Suites and  Wikipedia's List of Word Processors.

  11. Dave Taylor's innovative method for recovering Word document may only work with Word 97-2003 doc files.

  12. A long series of technical suggestions for recovering Word documents maybe not found elsewhere.

  13. "Word up to version 2003 stores its formatting changes attached to the last paragraph end mark of each. So if the formatting gets corrupted, try copying the entire doc apart from the last paragraph mark and pasting it into a new <document. Haven't used this for a few years, but it used to work well." - via jonrichco's comment on Tech Republic.

Recovering Word
2007/2010 Documents

Those in bold type are quick fixes

  1. Check out Tech Republic's 10+ ways to recover a corrupted Word document.

  2. Try opening Word with the command line
    "winword.exe /a". This causes Word to ignore the normal.dot (default template) file and default preferences (in the Registry). If there is a problem in the normal.dot or Registry, Word should open and perhaps your file will open normally, as well.- Via  hafizullah@techrepublic.com post.

  3. Use Microsoft's exhaustive methods: How to troubleshoot damaged documents in Word 2007 
    and in Word 2010.

  4. Using "Open and Repair" facilities in Word.

  5. Use the "Extract Text From Any Document" facility in Word.

  6. Try to convert the text using a text/data extracting/converter service like: DOCX-Converter, Zamzar, Cometdocs, YouConvertIt 
    DocMorphFreeFileConvert and probably others.

  7. Try the freeware Damaged DOCX2TXT .

  8. Try the free corrupt file text/data extracting service, saveofficedata.com .

  9. Try the freeware command line app CMD Corrupt OfficeOpen2Txt.

  10. Try the open source command line app SilverCoders' doctotext.

  11. Try the command line  open source app by Sandeep Kumar, Docx to Text converter.

  12. Repair the zip aspect of the file with a free zip repair app and then try to open again in Word. Free zip repair programs: S2services' List of Zip Corruption Repair Specific Freeware  and S2services' List of Zip Suites with Corruption Repair Features.

  13. Try opening the Word file in another Office Suite or Word Processor - Wikipedia's List of Office Suites and  Wikipedia's List of Word Processors.

  14. Dave Taylor's innovative method for recovering Word document may only work with Word 97-2003 doc files, but I suppose it's worth trying.

  15. A long series of technical suggestions for recovering Word documents maybe not found elsewhere.

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