| Microsoft Word is the most popular | | | | Cause |
| word-processing application available today. | | | | The above abrupt behavior is witnessed with |
| Professional documents can be created utilizing its | | | | Word documents in the following conditions: |
| advanced features, and that too with utmost | | | | If you try and open the Word document using |
| ease. But, those who use Microsoft Word on | | | | the following steps: |
| regular basis are aware of the corruption issues | | | | 1. If you click a Hyperlink in an HTML document in |
| which keep bothering them. Corruption of Word | | | | a Web browser |
| documents is a serious problem as it leads to | | | | 2. In Word 2003, you go to the File menu and |
| catastrophic data loss problems. If you ever | | | | click OK |
| encounter such a situation, then besides relying | | | | Or if the Word document is corrupt or damaged |
| just on a backup copy, you can look up to Word | | | | Resolution |
| repair strategies as suggested by Microsoft. | | | | You must observe the following steps in order to |
| There are various methods, like Open and Repair, | | | | get rid off the erroneous situation and perform |
| which might help you in recovering the text of | | | | Word recovery. |
| the affected document. However, if you want to | | | | You can avoid this problem or issue if you install |
| go for absolute recovery, there is a hope in the | | | | Office 2003 Service Pack 3 |
| form of a third-party repair software. | | | | If the above solution doesn't solve the problem, |
| Consider a situation, wherein, you have installed | | | | then you must repair the corrupt Word document |
| Microsoft Word 2003 on your system. You have | | | | by using 'Open and Repair' feature of the Word. |
| a document stored on a HTTP or FTP location. | | | | If you still do not yield any positive results, it is |
| This document was created in an earlier version | | | | good that you opt for a professional Word repair |
| of MS Word. When you make an attempt to | | | | software. |
| open it, you might receive the following error | | | | These advanced tools have become popular lately |
| message which goes like: | | | | as they assist you in repairing a corrupt Word |
| "Word was unable to read this document. It may | | | | document easily. |
| be corrupt. Try one or more of the following: | | | | One of the reliable tools available is Stellar Phoenix |
| *Open and Repair the file. | | | | Word Recovery. This application has an intuitive |
| *Open the file with the Text Recovery | | | | GUI and efficiently repairs Word documents |
| Converter. | | | | created with MS Word 2007, 2003, 2002 and |
| (path\filename)" | | | | 2000 versions The Word recovery application |
| It is due to the above error message that you | | | | repairs and recovers all components of a |
| are unable to extract information from the Word | | | | damaged Word document including tables, |
| document in question. | | | | graphics, charts etc. |