Corrupted microsoft word file

I have a file saved on a USB microsoft word. Today, I tried to open it and a message pops up saying "the file... cannot be opened because there are problems with the content". When I click on details, he says "the file is corrupt and cannot be opened. When I click OK, it asks if I want to recover the contents of this document. When I click on Yes another box pops up saying the same thing as before, but this time by clicking Details displays the message "Microsoft Office cannot pen this file because some parts are missing or ivalid.» Is there a way I can retrieve the text of this document? Why would he have corrupted in the first place?... other documents on the USB work fine

Corruption can occur for various reasons.  There might be a block damaged on the USB drive and this file was that are stored and thus corrupt himself.  We usually never find out why corruption has occurred.

There are many programs that claim to be able to Repair Word files corrupted - unfortunately, most of them are commercial products (I couldn't find a free - but people in the Group Discussion Board mentioned below may be familiar with one - or there may be an option in Word itself).  Here is a list of them Bing, if you want to check out some: http://www.bing.com/search?q=repair%20a%20corrupted%20.doc%20file&mkt=en-us&FORM=TOOLBR&DI=6244&CE=14.0&CM=SearchWeb.

If you have Vista Business, Vista Ultimate or Vista Enterprise, you can be lucky.  They have so-called saves shadow copies, which are deleted or modified files that can be recovered in case changes/deletions made by mistake.  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/Windows-Vista/features/shadow-copy.aspx more information about how to use this feature to: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/howdoi/?p=145... Check your hard drive and your USB key.

If you have Vista Basic or Premium of Vista, shadow copies is not available; However, there is an alternative that is free and the shadow copies feature called Shadow Explorer. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/recover-files-with-shadow-copies-on-any-version-of-windows-vista/.  Although it will not help you this time, it could very well save you in case this happens again.

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If the above does not work, in which concerns the Word file recovery, you must republish your question in the Discussion of the Office group at: http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement&lang=en&cr=US where the specialists of Word (such as the recovery of corrupted Word files) if possible will be more than happy to help you with your problem.

I hope this helps.

Good luck!

Lorien - MCSA/MCSE/network + / has + - if this post solves your problem, please click the 'Mark as answer' or 'Useful' button at the top of this message. Marking a post as answer, or relatively useful, you help others find the answer more quickly.

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