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Corrupted Word File

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by obplastics Jan 8, 2003 last reply Jan 9, 2003

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I created a lengthy Word document, closed it, everything looked fine. Now I cannot open it in either Word or Wordpad and other computers have the same problem. Word actually crashes when asked to open the file. There is a back-up copy but it has thesame problem.
Is there a utility that might save me from re-creating the file?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

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by dklippert Jan 9, 2003

Wordpad is Word 6.0.
Just a stab, try opening it using the file type:

"Recover Text from Any File"

by obplastics Jan 9, 2003

If you read my question: I tried that already!

by sgt_shultz Jan 9, 2003

did you try a fresh document, then importing or inserting a file? good luck...

by obplastics Jan 9, 2003

Did not work.

by pierrejamme Jan 9, 2003

Normal.dot is the standard template used by Word and is known to become corrupted. I would try deleting your normal.dot, restarting Word and then try to open your file. Word automatically creates a new normal.dot if there isn't one already.