Word 2000; "file may be corrupt", but starting new file does no go

[Iznoach]

I've been keeping a log in Word 2000 at work since the middle of 2007, of
everything I do at work on a given day. The only formatting I use is
bulleting and the headers are bolded and larger. All of a sudden, when I
open the document it says "this document may be corrupt. to preserve the
contents: choose select all from the contents, blah blah blah". So I tried
that. Now when I open the new file, it says the same thing. I noticed that
the file was rather large, with over 80,000 characters, and thought maybe I
was over a limit; so I broke the files down into 2007, 2008, and 2009
(current). However, now all the smaller files are also corrupted! What's
going on here!? Thanks for any help I might get!

 

[Terry Farrell]

There are several ways to rescue corrupt files.

1. Try using the File, Open and Repair function (the little arrow next
tot he OPEN button of the File Open dialog)
2. Try opening the file in WordPad
3. Try opening in Word using the Recover Text from any File option

If all those fail, then it pretty much means it is too badly damaged. How
and where have you been saving your document? If this at work, don't they
have backups you could rescue from?

 

[Terry Farrell]

I don't think that the Open & Repair option was in Word 200. SO try the
following step instead.

Open a blank document and then use Insert, File selecting the broken
document and see if you can force it open that was.

Terry