How To Repair Corrupted OR Damaged Word Documents

Sometimes word documents will get corrupted due to sudden power loss and some other reasons. When we try to open the document it displays some errors like..
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  • "Word cannot open the document."
  • "Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges.
  • "Word document is corrupted."
At this stage we loose all the data in the document. To recover the data form the document (*.doc) you need to download the Word Repair program.

Read: How To Recover Super Hidden Files From Pendrive Using Software

How To Recover The Word Document

  • Download Word Repair program form www.repairmyword.com.
  • After downloading Open the program. ( No need to install it
  • Open the corrupted or damaged word document by clicking Repair/Open button.
  • It will recover & show the data contains in the damaged file. 
  • Save the document without errors by clicking Save button.
free microsoft word reapair tool screenshot 

Word Repair will recovers only Microsoft Word 6.0, Word 95, 97, 2000, XP, and Ms.Office 2003 documents. 
 

Some Best Word Recovery softwares.

  1. www.officerecovery.com/word
  2. www.recoverytoolbox.com/word.html ( Supports M.S Office 2007 and 2010 )
  3. www.jufsoft.com/docrepair ( Supports M.S Office 2007 and 2010 )
For more information on Word Errors See here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826864

11 Comments

  1. You can try following methods to retrieve data from corrupt documents.

    Start MS Word in Safe Mode.
    Try Force recovery to repair corrupt file.
    Try any 3rd party Word repair tool.

    1. Start MS Word in Safe Mode: You can do this by Start->Run->winword /safe->Ok.

    2. Try Force recovery to repair corrupt file: To do this, follow these steps:

    click File on the Ribbon, and then click Open.
    In the Open dialog box, click to highlight your Word document.
    Click the arrow on the Open button, and then click Open and Repair.

    3. Try any 3rd party Word repair tool: If above two methods fail to repair corrupt word document then I will suggest you try Word repair software from Stellar Phoenix.

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  2. I had a corrupted word document file, tried this tool but it was unable to repair my corrupt file then I switched to Kernel for word file repair software and problem was solved successfully.

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  3. Thanks manish for sharing your experience.

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  4. Hi there is a best software to recover deleted word documents. This software can repair any kind of damage done. Word document recovery program is more effective you can find it at- http://www.bestfilerecoveryprogram.com/formatted-usb-drive-word-document-recovery.html

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  5. Well this looks good, thanks for sharing.

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  6. This is nice but I don't have a corrupted word document but still will keep it as a backup.

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  7. Hi friends.. Its easy to fix corrupted Word documents. I have used it to fix my .doc files when my .doc files were broken, it works successfully that all my Word files get repaired. You may get it at link- http://www.repairofficedocuments.com/how-to-repair-office-2010-docx-file.html

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  8. Word Recovery tool is capable for corruption issue but more option are available like RecoveryFix for word recovery tool.Its repair corrupted doc & docx file format and access when MS word file crashed. http://www.mswordrecovery.com

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  9. Try opening the document with WordPad. Then copy contents and paste into a new Word document and save document. Worked for me.

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