WORD refuses to OPEN document. How to repair CORRUPTED FILE?

[Larry]

I've got following problem when opening one of my word documents:

Word cannot open the document.
Try one or more of the following:
* On the File menu, click Open to open the document.
* Make sure the document is a Valid Word document.

Is it possible to open/repair the document ?


Greetings,
Larry

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Did you try File | Open? What happened?

I've got following problem when opening one of my word documents:

Word cannot open the document.
Try one or more of the following:
* On the File menu, click Open to open the document.
* Make sure the document is a Valid Word document.

Is it possible to open/repair the document ?


Greetings,
Larry

 

[Tim Murray]

I've got following problem when opening one of my word documents:

Word cannot open the document.
Try one or more of the following:
* On the File menu, click Open to open the document.
* Make sure the document is a Valid Word document.

Is it possible to open/repair the document ?

Sometimes other apps that can read Word docs (FrameMaker, for instance) can
open them. Your formatting may be lost, but you may be able to recover your
text.

 

[Larry]

When you open through File - Open. Same message.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

File | Open with Recover Text from Any File set might recover the text for
you (be sure to go back and unset it after). MacWord does not have the
repair utility that WinWord apparently does.

What's this doc like, what's its history? Any idea about what could have
corrupted it?

DM

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Is it possible to open/repair the document ?

I've had success recovering corrupted word docs with the free OpenOffice:

http://openoffice.org

OpenOffice requires Apple's X11 (X Window) run-time environment.

There's a new Carbon/Java port of OpenOffice called NeoOffice/J. I
suspect that will work much the same, but I haven't tried it on
corrupted docs.

 

[Rob Daly [MSFT]]

Does the document open in Windows Word? Try opening it there and saving as
RTF. If that fails, let me know...



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Rob Daly
Macintosh Business Unit
Word Test

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