Corrupted Word Documents

[Lboro fox]

I use a design package that copies the calculations into a word document. Yesterday word did an auto-save in the middle of a copy and then crashed. As such the file is now corrupted and wont let me open it. Does anyone know how I can recover it or roll it back to a previous save?

I have used the text recovery tool, but it got really confused with the pictures and calculations meaning there is 150 pages of waffle.

 

[bocadillo]

I use a design package that copies the calculations into a word document. Yesterday word did an auto-save in the middle of a copy and then crashed. As such the file is now corrupted and wont let me open it. Does anyone know how I can recover it or roll it back to a previous save?

I have used the text recovery tool, but it got really confused with the pictures and calculations meaning there is 150 pages of waffle.

Darth will be along any minute to tell you that Word is a girly-application, but there's just time to ask whether you have auto-recover switched on? File/Help/Options/Save/Auto-recover

If you have, earlier versions of your file should be found at C:\users\username\appdata\


Best of luck!

 

[Lboro fox]

Darth will be along any minute to tell you that Word is a girly-application, but there's just time to ask whether you have auto-recover switched on? File/Help/Options/Save/Auto-recover

If you have, earlier versions of your file should be found at C:\users\username\appdata\


Best of luck!

The folder is empty! The corruption meant that the auto-recovery is irrelevant. Not happy, thanks anyway Boc.

 

[Darth Vodka]

Darth will be along any minute to tell you that Word is a girly-application

it's for secretaries isn't it? think i've heard of it

 

[Lboro fox]

it's for secretaries isn't it? think i've heard of it

Funny you say that. Its my secretary that will get the job of extracting the sensible information form the 138 pages of chinese characters in the recovered file.

 

[Cate Fox]

Funny you say that. Its my secretary that will get the job of extracting the sensible information form the 138 pages of chinese characters in the recovered file.

and I'm sure she'll love you for it..

 

[IanD]

Try right-clicking the file in Windows Explorer then selecting "Open With", then "Wordpad" (you may need to browse for Wordpad).

If the stuff's in there then cut & paste it into a new Word file.