WORD document to restore the damaged several practical methods

When you try to open a Word document, if the system does not respond, then the likely cause is that the document has been damaged. At this point, try the method I described below, may be able to restore all or part of your loss.

First, the automatic recovery of the changes has not been saved

Word provides a "Auto Recovery" feature that can help users to retrieve program has encountered a problem and stops responding when the information has not been saved. In fact, you do not have to work to save the computer and restart Word, the system will open the "Document Recovery" task pane (Figure 1), which lists the program stops responding when all of the files has been restored. File name followed by the state indicator, indicating the recovery process has been made to the file operations, including: "original file" means the last manually saved on the source file; "restored" in the recovery process is restored file, or in the "Auto Recovery" the preservation process saved the file.

"Document Recovery" task pane allows you to open the file, view the repair done as well as the restored versions. Then, you can save the best version and delete the other versions, or save all open files for later preview. However, the "Document Recovery" task pane is new features available in Word XP, the previous versions, Word will automatically restore the file directly to the open and displayed.

Second, manually open the recovery file

After a serious failure or similar problem, restart Word, the program automatically any recovered files. If for some reason the recovery file does not open up to you to open it, follow these steps:

1. In the "common" tool bar, click "Open" button;

2. In the folder list, locate and double-click a folder to store recovered files. For Windows 2000/XP operating system, the location is usually "C: \ documents and settings \ \ Application Data \ Microsoft \ Word" folder; for Windows 98/Me operating systems, the location is usually "C: \ Windows \ Application Data \ Microsoft \ Word "folder;

3. In the "File Types" box, click "All Files." Each recovery file name appears as "'Auto resume' Save file name" and the program file extension;

4. Click the file name to be restored, and then click "Open" button.

Third, the "Open and Repair" file

Word XP provides a new method to restore the damaged document, follow these steps:

1. In the "File" menu, click "Open" command;

2. In the "Look in" list, click to open the file that contains the drive, folder, or Internet location;

3. In the folder list, locate and open the folder containing the file;

4. Select the file to be restored;

5. Click "Open" button next to the arrow, and then click "Open and Repair."

Fourth, to recover text from any file

Word provides a "Recover Text from Any File" file converter that can be used to extract text from any file. To use the file converter to recover the damaged file in the text, follow these steps:

1. In the "Tools" menu, click "Options" command, and then click the "General" tab;

2. Sure select "Confirm conversion at Open" check box, click "OK" button;

3. In the "File" menu, click "Open" command;

4. In the "File Types" box, click the "Recover Text from Any File." If the "File Types" box, and do not see the "Recover Text from Any File", you need to install the appropriate file converter. Not to repeat the installation method;

5. Open the document as usual.

At this point, the system will pop-up "Convert File" dialog box, select the desired file format. Of course, if the recovery from a damaged Word document, text, select "Plain Text", click "OK" button. However, the choice of the "plain text", open the document, the document can only recover the ordinary text of the original document image objects will be lost, headers and footers and other non-text information into a common text.

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