need help asap word document

#1 balkrish999

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 11:42 AM

hello please help me

i was doing my some work on Microsoft word and i saved a document

and now its corrupt, even when i open and repair it it does not open please help me as the document is very important. Thank You

i opened it with notepad but theres lots of square and other symbols

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#2 Martel

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Posted 27 September 2010 - 02:46 PM

I would make a copy of the file first.

What version of Word

What is the extension of the file name?
you can try renaming it with a .docx if it is not already a .doc or .docx

Word has a feature that may work.

Open Word
pull down file and choose open
navigate to the document and highlight it
do not open it

Instead look at the open button it will have a little pull down menu.
pull that menu down and choose open and repair.

EDIT
once open copy all Ctrl A then open a new doc and paste Ctrl V

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#3 balkrish999

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Posted 28 September 2010 - 07:58 AM

Martel, on Sep 27 2010, 02:46 PM, said:

ok hello the documents is very important

i have used word 2003 and 2007 i have tried open and repiar and renaming it

if possible can u give me ur email as ill email you the document (179kb) and if you can can you fix it please Thank You

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Posted 28 September 2010 - 08:45 AM

Did you follow try the procedures listed above?

I have pm'd my e-mail address to you

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Posted 28 September 2010 - 08:55 AM

balkrish999, on Sep 28 2010, 02:42 AM, said:

i opened it with notepad but theres lots of square and other symbols

Ignore the squares and symbols and search for the first word of your text. If the file is not so corrupted that the text itself no longer exists, you could copy the text and past it back into a new Word document. Then you could restore your formatting to how you want it.

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Posted 28 September 2010 - 01:17 PM

Martel, on Sep 28 2010, 08:45 AM, said:

Did you follow try the procedures listed above?

I have pm'd my e-mail address to you

yes i follwed the infomation you gave me

unfortunatly it didnt work

i email you back with 3 copys of the document i also downloaded open office but no luck it didnt open genral/output error

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Posted 28 September 2010 - 03:36 PM

What version of Word are you using?

Did you by chance create this doc on another computer then bring it to another computer to open.

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#8 balkrish999

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 02:11 AM

did u get my email? with the copys attached?? yea or no??

i am using word 2007 and 2003

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 09:22 AM

Yes I stripped the text out and sent it back.

Probably the originating computer had Word 2010 not backward compatible to Word 2003.
Take the file back to the original computer or a Word 2010 machine, open it then choose save as and save as type Word 2003.
Use a new file name for safety
Then you should be able to open it at home.

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#10 balkrish999

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 11:19 AM

Yes I stripped the text out and sent it back. -- what do u mean there was no attachment to the email please re email me agian

the school computer was 2003 i checked it today

email me back with the attachment

Thank You

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 06:23 PM

Re E-mailed again.

The doc has Word 2007 attributes.
At some point it was opened and saved on 2007

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#12 balkrish999

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 08:05 AM

its still in squares and has 93 pages with it look

how many pages does your file have?

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 09:09 AM

I have the same size, upon extraction the file quadruple in size probably due to the pictures being converted to characters.

Take the document back to the Word 2007 machine where you had it open and saved, that is your best bet.

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