How To Repair Corrupt Word Documents

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Aug

Trouble:

Some word documents do not open on double clicking especially when that document is made by someone else on some other computer with another version of MS word, or some other software.

 

It happened to that I needed to open an important work related document and I got this error-screen from MS word 2003 and MS word 2007 respectively. It Says

Word was unable to read this document It may be corrupt.

The Office Open XML file cannot be opened because there are problems with contents.

The file is corrupted and cannot be opened

Microsoft Word 2003 Document Corrupt

Microsoft Word 2003 Document Corrupt

Lets see a very easy and quick way of repairing such documents.

Fix:

How To Fix Corrupt Word Document?

 

 

The fix is really easy and quick. Just Open the Microsoft Word software, click on File > Open. In Open dialogue box, select the document you want to repair, now click on a small arrow on the side of the Open button. It will show a drop down menu, click on Open and Repair. It will repair the document. See the snapshots for Microsoft Word 2003 and Microsoft Word 2007 below. Click to enlarge these images.

Open Microsoft Word 2003 Document

 

Open Microsoft Word 2007 Document

How to Repair Microsoft Word 2003 Document Repair Microsoft Word 2007 Document

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Author + Admin: Abhishek Bhatnagar
Hi, I am a Software Engineer by profession and blogger by passion, I write about computer tips and tricks and solutions for computer problems. You can connect with me at twitter or know more about me on www.abhishekbhatnagar.com.

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zlatan24 says, September 2nd, 2008   

I heard about not bad application-repair word 2007 files, can try to open your report in Microsoft Word format, that you have been preparing for a week, but in vain,tool can recover your data from corrupted *.doc files, located on corrupted media: floppy and CD disks, flash and zip drives, etc,can work with .doc, .docx, .dot and .dotx files and with any version of Microsoft Word text editor.

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Wm says, November 7th, 2008   

Unfortunately, the “Open and Repair” option doesn’t always work – and it’s NEVER worked for me. I’m still struggling to open 1/2 of my Word 2003 documents, and even docs created in 2007 but saved in Word 97-2003 format will not open.

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Repair Corrupt MS Office Documents and Open Office Documents says, March 3rd, 2009   

[...] a presentation file just refuses to open.  We have already written an article in which you can repair MS Office documents using MS Office. But sometimes, even that options might not work if the document is created in Open office etc. MS [...]

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Ask TroubleFixers – Solutions To Computer Problems – #8 says, May 18th, 2009   

[...] file corruption. This file corruption can be fixed using Microsoft word easily. See the tutorial on How To Repair Corrupt Word Documents. Also there is another way for repairing MS office or Open office documents by using google [...]

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