Recovering Word Document

phill · 19 Jan 2006 at 08:41

Morning all

does anyone know of any free tools that can recover corrupted word documents? The only one i have found is about $130 :eek:

tia

HEADRAT · 19 Jan 2006 at 08:45

Find the broken doc on your hard disc, usually not that hard to find, cut and paste the text out of it and start again.

Required a little effort but saves you $130

HEADRAT

phill · 19 Jan 2006 at 08:57

yeah could do that but i loose all the formatting, tables and images from a 50 page document that I didn't write

kaiowas · 19 Jan 2006 at 09:10

Recently I've had some success opening corrupt Excel files in Open Office. It's worth a try.

PikeyPriest · 19 Jan 2006 at 10:58

Open the .doc in notepad.

Sometimes you can get all the text back minus pictures and layout.

iJedi · 19 Jan 2006 at 11:50

or wordpad... but again u lose all the formating