Corrupt word doc

[Guest]

Hi
I am trying to open a doc, but keep being told the doc is corrupt. It asks
for the password I gave the doc which I give only to have Word crashing or
being told that word has 'unexpectedly quit'. On reopening the application I
am informed that 'word encountered file corruption while opening... Part of
this document may be recoverable. Attempt recovery now?' When clicking 'yes'
I am presented with gobbledygook.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Clive

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

Hi
I am trying to open a doc, but keep being told the doc is corrupt. It asks
for the password I gave the doc which I give only to have Word crashing or
being told that word has 'unexpectedly quit'. On reopening the application I
am informed that 'word encountered file corruption while opening... Part of
this document may be recoverable. Attempt recovery now?' When clicking 'yes'
I am presented with gobbledygook.
Can anyone help?

Sometimes WinWord02/03 can recover files that Mac and previous Win
versions can't.

If you don't have that, I've had some success using OpenOffice, the
Open Source Office suite, which runs on the X11 (Unix X-Windows)
software from Apple:

http://openoffice.org
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/

be warned, however, that installation is not trivial.

If you just want your text out, you can try using File/Open then
choose Recover Text from any file in the Enable dropdown. After
using that option, be sure to open a file using a standard option
such as Word Document, as the Recover Text setting is "sticky".

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your suggestions. I was only able to try Open Office, but it
states on attempting that it won't open password protected files. I also
tried to recover just the text but there isn't an option 'recover text' nor
an Enable dropdown in Word X for mac that I can see. Being able to recover
just the text would be great. I don't have access to a windows pc.
Any other thoughts
Clive

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

Choose File/Open. At the top of the Open dialog, there's a dropdown
that allows you to choose the file types exposed (it's labelled
Enable in Panther. Maybe "Show" in Jaguar and prior - how quickly I
forget...). At the bottom of the dropdown will be the choice
"Recover Text from any file".

Word v.X uses the system dialogs for I/O, so the exact wording will
be system dependent.

 

[Guest]

Thanks again for your help - managed to get to 'recover text', only for Word
to 'unexpectedly quit' when I pressed OK - tried several times with same
result. Not looking good... This seems to have resulted from having backed
up with Apple's Back Up software from their .Mac service, losing the
original, downloading from the Back Up, and then trying to open that
version. None of the other docs, the originals of which I also lost, has
given me this problem, but the doc I'm trying to open was the only one
password protected. Maybe therein lies the problem?
Clive