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Corrupt Word Repair Recovery made Easy

Microsoft Word is a word processor which is designed by Microsoft MS Word is the part of Microsoft Office suite. This application is very much helpful for creating, viewing, editing, saving and printing electronic documents. It allows the users to perform word processing. By the help of this tool, you can create resumes, organizational charts, novels, term papers and many other valuable documents. MS Word has many important features like you can easily make any document and easily edit/save/delete or move any content from your document at any point of time. It rectifies your text error by performing the spelling check and correcting it automatically. You can add pictures or relevant graphical items to your document by importing it from outside from Clip Art Gallery option. It also provides the facility of mail-merge. Moreover it directly connects you to the internet if you have any problem or if you want to take any help regarding creating, editing, saving and printing your text document or for resolving error issues, at any point of time. All the documents created by the help of latest version of MS Word will be saved in .docx format whereas it has many options to save a particular file in different file formats such as doc, .txt, and .rtf. Word 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2010 are some of the prominent versions of Microsoft Word. But alike all other file formats, MS Word file also gets corrupted under many circumstances. Some of the most common reasons for Microsoft Word file corruption are as mentioned below:

File format cycling: This is the most common reason for Word document corruption. It happens when a document is converted from one format to another on a continuous basis. For example- changing Word to Rtf to Word format or changing from Word to Excel and back to Word format. This changing process of file format is known as file format cycling. Due to this reason your Word document gets corrupted.

Transferring Word file from one source to another: Be careful while transferring Microsoft Word file from one storage device to another. Suppose if you are transferring Word file from your system to CD or to the flash drive then make sure that data is getting transferred without facing any obstacles. Improper installation of flash drive, scratches in CD or system error can restrict the file transferring process and can damage your Word files because of incomplete execution of transferring process.

Macro Virus attack: If the Microsoft Word document gets infected by a micro virus then there is no chance that your file will not get damaged or corrupted. Generally, micro viruses are not harmful but some of them can corrupt your Word files severely. A macro virus acts like a conventional computer virus and takes advantage of Word’s structure and functionality in order to replicate and trigger when certain events occur.

Hence, these are the three major scenarios under which your Word file gets corrupted. Besides these scenarios there are many other scenarios which are responsible for Microsoft Word document corruption. Some of them are as follows:

• Invalid form of digital signature
• Virus in application itself which restrict content storage in the document
• Severe header corruption
• Abnormal way of system shut down can affect the word file if it is in active mode

Requirements: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008, MS Office 2000 or above version

Therefore, under all these scenarios your Word document gets corrupted. But you can always protect is from getting corrupted by taking some precautionary measures. Some of the important precautionary measures are stated below:

• You should never close your Word document abruptly as it may corrupt your particular Word file. If you want to close the MS Word application then you should click on ‘close’ option which is located at the file menu
• Always close the network connection if you are not using the file. It has been observed that the failure of network connection can corrupt the Word file
• It is essential that you should keep your system virus free by scanning it on a regular basis with the help of trust-worthy anti-virus program
• Do not change the file format unnecessarily over and over again as it is likely to damage your MS Word file severely

These precautionary steps will help you to protect your Word file from corruption. But even after taking precautions, if you are not able to protect your Word document from corruption then in that case you have to use Microsoft Office Word document fixing application for repairing corrupted Word files. It easily fixes all the issues related to Microsoft Word file corruption and helps you to repair MS Office 2010 damaged Word document. It has easy-to-use interface which makes this tool user-friendly. It has the ability to fix severely damaged DOC and DOCX files. This application supports MS Office 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010. Therefore, this is the best utility that helps you to perform MS Office 2007 corrupted Word document repair with utmost ease. It is compatible with all the versions of MS Operating Systems such as Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008. You can easily fix corrupted Word files in just five easy steps which are as follows:

Step 1: Download and Install demo version of this software and launch it by clicking the desktop icon. As soon as the software starts running, the main window will pop-up as shown in Figure 1

Figure 1 : Main Screen

Step 2: Once you see the main scrren, you need to upload your doc / docx file from its location where it has been stored. For this purpose, you need to click on "Browse" button. As soon as you click on browse button, your file gets uploaded automatically. Once it gets uploaded, you need to click on "Repair" button. Remeber the repair process starts immediately as the color of the repair button changes from blue to green color as shown in Figure 2

Figure 2 : File selection screen

Requirements: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008, MS Office 2000 or above version

Step 3: Once your file gets repaired, you can preview your repaired file in a separate window by clicking on "Click Here to preview file" option as shown in Figure 3

Figure 3 : Preview Window

Step 4: Click on "Browse" button in order to save your repaired file to a specific location in your system. Once you are done with it, click on "Save" button in order to save your repaired file successfully as shown in Figure 4

Figure 4 : Save Window

NOTE: - In demo version you can only preview your repaired Word file but you can’t save it. Therefore, in order to save your repaired file, you have active the full version of this software. Once you active the full version of this application then you can easily save repaired file by clicking on save button.

Requirements: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008, MS Office 2000 or above version