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How to perform Word Repair Recovery on Office 2003 ?

MS Word is one of the members of Microsoft Office suite. Basically, it is a word processor which is used for creating documents. Word 2003 is the most elegant, secure and professional version compared to its predecessors. This version has many new and exciting features such as document comparison, research task pane, reading layout view facility, readable statistics, inserting audio comments, easy conversion of text to a table and table to a text, auto check and many more. Therefore, MS Word 2003 is the most superior version than any other older version. By default all the files of MS Word 2003 will be saved as .doc. You might come across several issues while opening a word document. This can happen due to many reasons but the most common reason is file corruption. The scenarios under which your Word 2003 file gets corrupted are as mentioned below: -

Using unreliable repairing software: Most of the Word file repairing software would give you guarantee of repairing all your corrupted and damaged files in a good condition without damaging the source file. But this is partially true. Using unreliable and inappropriate file repairing software can damage your source file. This can further damage already corrupted files due to which you will not be able to open it even after repairing it. Such repaired files will not work and remains in corrupted state.

Abruptl shutdown of system: Word files can get corrupted when it is in active mode and your system shuts down accidentally. Sometimes it may happen that your system automatically shut down due to hardware problem or due to continuous power fluctuation.

Virus attack by installing third party applications: Viruses are the major threat to your system. Most of your files get corrupted because of external threats. Installing third party application may increases the risk of more virus attack. Once your Word file gets infected with any external threat then there is more probability that your MS Word document will get corrupted. Some of the dangerous virus can even alter the file structure of your document and making it inaccessible for further use.

Improper Installation: It is very essential to install MS Word application properly. Incomplete installation of MS Word can create problems in accessing and saving Word files. Not only this, but there are also lot of chances that your file may get corrupted and refuses to open.

Once your Word file gets corrupted, you will come across many error messages such as:

• Word was unable to read this file. It may be corrupt
• Try one or more of the following: Open and Repair the file or Open the file with Text Recovery converter

You can easily fix the file corruption by following some of the important precautionary measures. Most common precautionary measures are stated below:

• Avoid installing third party application as it increases the chances of more virus attack
• Always use reliable file repairing software in order to avoid further damage to the existing corrupted files
• Improper installation of MS Word application can be a reason for Word document corruption. Therefore, always keep an eye when this application is getting installed onto your system
• Do not save or open any Word document in any other program until and unless it is required, as this may lead to data inaccessibility and corruption

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

Therefore, by following above mentioned precautionary measures, you can easily protect all your DOC files from getting corrupted. But even after this if your Word documents are getting corrupted and you are unable to fix the problem then in that case you can use best Word file repair recovery software. This software is very much useful for repairing all your corrupted and damaged .doc and .docx files. All issues related to corruption of Microsoft Word file such as file corruption due to power surge, improper download, header corruption, etc can be resolved efficiently by the help of this outstanding Word repair software. It can efficiently repair corrupted MS Office Word document. The prominent feature of this application is that it has easy-to-use wizard interface. This tool can easily repair DOCX documents and recovers text, OLE objects and hyperlinks from corrupt DOC files. It is compatible with all versions of MS Word such as 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010. It has powerful algorithms which are useful for resolving Microsoft Word document corruption 2010 issue in a very effective manner. Therefore, this helps you to do Word repair recovery on Office 2007 and 2010 very conveniently. It also supports Word file repair on Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008. Hence, you don’t need to get panic if your Word document gets corrupted because this software will fix severely damaged files in a short span of time. In addition to this, it can also fix MS Office 2007 Word file after severe corruption.

Guidelines that guide you about how to use this software are as mentioned below:

Step 1: Download the trial version of this software and Install it to your system for free of cost. Once you install it, you need to launch the softare by clicking on the desktop icon. As soon as tthe software starts processing, the main window will appear as shown in Figure 1

Figure 1 : Main Window

Step 2: As you can see in the figure 1 there is Browse button which is located in the middle of the window. Therefore, in the second step you need to click on "Browse button" in order to open the file that needs to be repaired. After this, click on "Repair" button once your file gets uploaded as shown in Figure 2

Figure 2 : Browse and upload the file

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

Step 3: Once you click on repair button, the software will immediately start its repairing process. This software efficiently repairs your file within a moment. As soon as the repair process gets completed, a new window will appear where you can easily preview your repaired file by just clicking "Click Here to preview file" option as shown in Figure 3

Figure 3 : Preview Screen

Step 4: Lastly, you can save your repaired file to a specific location in your system. But for that purpose, you need to click on "Browse" button in order to select the destination path for storing repaired file. Once you have selected the destination path, click on "Save" button in order to save your repaired file to selected location as shown in Figure 4

Figure 4 : Save Window

NOTE: If you want to save all your repaired files then you have to buy the full version of this software because in demo version you can only preview all your repaired files but you cannot save it to a preferred location. Once you switch to full version you can easily save all your repaired files by clicking on save button.

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