Word No More Tears (Corrupt Word Document Recovery)
If you have been working on a Microsoft Word document and discover that it has become corrupted and will no longer open, this utility might be able to help you. Given that this utility looks for one specific type of problem it is free to use, there is no guarantee of recovering your document in one piece, or at all. However, the method that this utility automates has been proven to work over multiple files for multiple people, including the one I originally developed the technique for. This utility should probably be your first stop before paying for services or paying for software.
I have had happy people report back who have recovered their thesis and other college documents. As with all document editing, the most important thing you can do is back up! Have a local copy on your drive, and keep copies on the cloud. Personally I use Google Docs with the drive sync, so the file exists both on my hard drive and on the cloud (it is synced to 3 physical locations). The side benefit of this, is should a copy suddenly go awry, Google Docs has a version feature which enables you to take one step back in your edits. You may lose work operating this way, but it will only be since your last save IF you can't recover it using my utility.
WordNMT is safe to use. It non-destructively attempts to recover your file and saves it back to the original location using a modified filename, with fix[WordNMT] added into the filename. Worst case scenario is you will be left with the same broken file and will need to pursue other techniques to try and fix it, you will not further corrupt your precious document.
What does it do? This utility focuses on fixing broken XML tags. The simplest way to explain it is to show you how to manually fix your file using the same technique as this automated process (after viewing, you might agree that this automation utility is far easier if it works for you). Check out the video I produced below, people have successfully followed the instructions, though reiterating, doing it that way will be much harder than using WordNMT.
If you have been working on a Microsoft Word document and discover that it has become corrupted and will no longer open, this utility might be able to help you. Given that this utility looks for one specific type of problem it is free to use, there is no guarantee of recovering your document in one piece, or at all. However, the method that this utility automates has been proven to work over multiple files for multiple people, including the one I originally developed the technique for. This utility should probably be your first stop before paying for services or paying for software.
I have had happy people report back who have recovered their thesis and other college documents. As with all document editing, the most important thing you can do is back up! Have a local copy on your drive, and keep copies on the cloud. Personally I use Google Docs with the drive sync, so the file exists both on my hard drive and on the cloud (it is synced to 3 physical locations). The side benefit of this, is should a copy suddenly go awry, Google Docs has a version feature which enables you to take one step back in your edits. You may lose work operating this way, but it will only be since your last save IF you can't recover it using my utility.
WordNMT is safe to use. It non-destructively attempts to recover your file and saves it back to the original location using a modified filename, with fix[WordNMT] added into the filename. Worst case scenario is you will be left with the same broken file and will need to pursue other techniques to try and fix it, you will not further corrupt your precious document.
What does it do? This utility focuses on fixing broken XML tags. The simplest way to explain it is to show you how to manually fix your file using the same technique as this automated process (after viewing, you might agree that this automation utility is far easier if it works for you). Check out the video I produced below, people have successfully followed the instructions, though reiterating, doing it that way will be much harder than using WordNMT.
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