How to Repair Word File

Microsoft Word is the most widely used text editor around the world. Its latest edition is Microsoft Office Word 2011 for Mac and Microsoft Office Word 2010 for Windows. It enables you to work together with people and create professional- quality Word files. Word provides you with enhanced features like; hyperlink to a webpage, embedding macros, creating designs, spelling and grammar check, etc. Due to its efficient features and user-friendly interface, MS Word has become the commonly used word processing tool.

However, MS Word faces problems like file corruption, which does not allow you to view your file. A Word file mainly gets corrupted due to viruses, known as macro viruses that get into the document when you embed any small program or picture in your Word document. Macro viruses perform some sequence of actions automatically when you open the infected document, resulting in file corruption. Software conflict and sudden system reboots are next common scenarios for Word file corruption. Transferring and sharing of Word files from one location to another can even lead to the corruption of Word file.

Corrupted file is always a problem for you, as it may have some important information that you want to get as soon as possible. To avoid this, you must take some precautions to minimize the possibility of Word file corruption. Always use some good quality antivirus software to check the programs and pictures that you are embedding in your Word document. Taking regular backups of important files is also a good step as it allows you to recover your precious file in case of Word file corruption. Still for some reasons your Word file is corrupted, you can use repair tool of MS Word to repair the file. If it is not able to repair the file then you should not panic, because you can use Repair Word to repair Word document with ease.

This software can easily repair Word 2010 document or repair Word 2007 document, including all DOC and DOCX files. Its repair engine reads from the corrupted Word file and makes a new healthy copy of the file. This software can repair and recover text, OLE objects, hyperlinks, formats, etc from the corrupted Word file. Repair Word will allow you to preview your repaired file in Microsoft Word 2000 or above versions of MS Word.

Following are some simple steps to repair corrupted Word files:

Step 1: Install and run the software to view the main screen as shown in Figure A

Figure A: Main Screen

Step 2: Browse the computer for corrupted file and select "Repair" button as shown in Figure B

Figure B: Select Corrupt Word File

Step 3: Check the repair progress as shown in Figure C

Figure C: Repair Progress

Step 4: Once file is repaired, preview it as shown in Figure D

Figure D: Preview Repaired File

Step 5: You can now easily activate the software and save repaired file as shown in Figure E

Figure E: Save Repaired File