How to recover corrupted word file?

It’s very common for a Word file become corrupted. If this files is important for us, we will try to repair it. Here are some useful tips for you to recover your corrupted Word document.

1.  Backup this Word file and make sure if the Word file is indeed damaged.

Before you try to repair a corrupted Word, you should copy this file so that you still can recover if you have accidentally destroyed in the repair process.

Sometimes, the Word files doesn’t actually damaged, it is the other causes for you cannot access to this document. Such as the problem of Word version, operating system.

Try to open other Word files on your computer and then you can also try to open the copied same Word file on other computer. to see if you can open it normally. If you have trouble opening other documents, your Word itself may be damaged or the OS has a problem. It is not the problem of your Word files.

2.  Check if you have other copies of this corrupted Word file

Check if you have ever send this Word documents to others recently. If so, you can ask others for the copy. And if you have emailed it to others, you can download in your email box.

3. Use the system tool CHKDSK to check the corrupted Word file

Run chkdsk to check your corrupted file at the file system level. It helps you to determine if there is a problem in the file system or the document itself. If there is no file system problem, CHKDSK's file system repair may fix your document.

4. Covert this corrupted Word file to text files

You can convert this Word document to other format, such as text. After you have opened the converted document, you can save this converted document in .doc format again to know if the problem has been solved.

5. Use a shadow copy of the document

The Windows shadow copies are automatically saved. You can recover the available recent version of your Word document.

6. Use a third party recovery tools

There are some tools are designed to recover the corrupted Word documents.

How to recover deleted Word file?

If you have accidentally delete your Word files, and you cannot find them in your recycle bin, you’d better use a data recovery software to recover your deleted word document.