Comments on: How Do I Repair a Corrupted Word File? (Corrupted Microsoft Word Files that Won’t Open)

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:39:53 +0000

Jamil,

Try downloading this free application and open the file in Safe Mode:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/corruptexcelrec/

Otherwise go over this document which is a fairly exhaustive list of steps for recovering Word files here: http://socrtwo.info/word_repair.htm. The docx section is further down the page.

You can also try to recover an older, deleted or temporary version by right clicking on the file in Explorer, choosing ”Properties” and then choosing the “Previous versions” tab if you have it.

Additionally these two commercial programs will scour your hard drive for temporary and deleted versions of the file, perhaps recovering the document:

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/ - search for both doc and docx files. It looks like the extension might have been wrong and it wasn’t docx in reality.
http://www.dposoft.net/word.html?abstradrome - try Word Regenerator trial first here and if it works purchase it with this link because I get a referral fee:-): http://goo.gl/jgXEJ

Most of the suggestions listed here are for free ways to recover file. However you may need to resort to the last two commercial solutions mentioned or those you can find by searching Google or Bing for word corruption recovery.

Good luck. This is a frustrating problem I know.

By: jamil ab

jamil ab — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:18:08 +0000

i cant seem to open my homework which is very important :(
, when i click on my essay (done in Microsoft word 2007) it keeps saying ‘the document economic essay.docx’ caused a serious error the last time i was opened.would you like to continue opening it? so i clicked yes and another box opened saying ‘the file cannot be opened because there are problems with the content’ :( plz help

By: Muhammad

Muhammad — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:17:12 +0000

Thanks for the advice. I was struggling to open a 40 page document that I had written up on a very tight deadline. Managed to get it open after downloading OpenOffice. I would’ve been really messed up if I had lost all that work!

By: Daphné

Daphné — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:35:10 +0000

I have a 2 page report, but once I opened it with OpenOffice, it was all in wierd writting (like so: lôèkXÆi±€##Ò?ú?I%?ÿÓô) and there is about 1375 pages. This is bad cause it’s due next week.

Help?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:34:42 +0000

Jessi,

Look here:
http://socrtwo.info/word_repair.htm
http://www.s2services.com/corrupt-file-commercialware.htm
http://www.s2services.com/corrupt-file-services.htm

Seeing you are a student, you can also send me the file and I will try to fix it for free. My E-Mail is socrtwo@s2services.com.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:31:14 +0000

im freaking out my 3 page essay for social studies isnt workin i downloaded the openoffice and nothing i tried opening it but it didnt say anything about it being corrupted the page just remained blank what does that mean?! the essay is due tomorrow and i have already re typed it three times and all three times it said it was corrupted and i saved it everytime as a completely new file. what do i do to get it back?

By: Jv

Jv — Tue, 24 May 2011 11:41:14 +0000

Thank u very much 4 the information…. it works. :-)

By: linus

linus — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:25:26 +0000

It opened …from the pulldown “open and repair” next to the open button of the dialog box.

thanks very much! :)