In this short tutorial you will learn how to open and repair a corrupted Word document:
- Unreadable characters in the document.
- A document is causing Word to crash.
- Layout and formatting issues.
Here are some solutions that can help:
You are unable to open a Microsoft Office 2007 document with the Office 2003!
Several solutions are available:
- Either install a newer version of Microsoft Office (2007 or 2010).
- Download the Compatibility Pack for Microsoft Office (2000, Office XP or Office 2003).
Microsoft Word integrates a small utility to fix your corrupted documents.
- Click File > Open.
- Then select the corrupted Word file.
- Click the drop-down menu to the right of the "Open" button and select "Open and Repair".
If the above method fails:
- Click on File > Open.
- Click on Files of type box
- Click on Recover Text from Any File(*,*)
- Select the corrupted Word file.
- Click on "Open".
- Only the text will be displayed (no formatting).
If none of the above method worked, you can always try to open the file with another software such as Wordpad.
- Open Wordpad.
- Click on File > Open.
- Select the corrupted file.