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Word 2007 Corrupted File
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I was working on a 10 page document in Word 2007 for which, I saved it on my thumb drive with many of the other documents and they all open up with know problems. The 10 page document was corrupted and I get a message that the file is corrupted and the thumb drive has a serious error. Please advise, Nathaniel |
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Word 2007 Corrupted File
Try saving all your files off your thumbdrive, then format our thumbdrive.
see if corruption happens again. If it does then it is possible you need a new thumbdrive. " wrote: Hello, I was working on a 10 page document in Word 2007 for which, I saved it on my thumb drive with many of the other documents and they all open up with know problems. The 10 page document was corrupted and I get a message that the file is corrupted and the thumb drive has a serious error. Please advise, Nathaniel |
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Word 2007 Corrupted File
I was able to save my files but not the one that is corrupted, which is the
most important. Is there a utility that can recover my corrupted file? -- Thanks Nathaniel "nolpthae" wrote: Try saving all your files off your thumbdrive, then format our thumbdrive. see if corruption happens again. If it does then it is possible you need a new thumbdrive. " wrote: Hello, I was working on a 10 page document in Word 2007 for which, I saved it on my thumb drive with many of the other documents and they all open up with know problems. The 10 page document was corrupted and I get a message that the file is corrupted and the thumb drive has a serious error. Please advise, Nathaniel |
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Word 2007 Corrupted File
You may not be able to "recover" the file in the sense of having all the text
and its formatting intact, but you can probably pull out all the text. First make a copy of the document file to work on, on your hard drive (_not_ on the thumbdrive). Put the original aside for safekeeping. Rename the copy with a .zip extension (this works because Word 2007 format documents really are zip files). Open the resulting zip file, which contains a series of folders that contain other files. In the \word folder you'll find a file named document.xml. Make a copy of that file outside the zip container. Double-click it to open it (by default Windows usually wants to open .xml files in Internet Explorer, which is OK). If IE refuses to open it because of an error in the XML, right-click the file and choose Open With Notepad. There will be a lot of XML coding, but the plain text will be there between tags w:t and \w:t. You can copy/paste the text to a new document and reformat it. In general, _never_ edit any Word document while it's on a thumbdrive or any other removable media. It's simply an invitation to document corruption. Always work on the documents on the hard drive and then copy the file to the thumbdrive for transport or backup. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:26:00 -0700, wrote: I was able to save my files but not the one that is corrupted, which is the most important. Is there a utility that can recover my corrupted file? -- Thanks Nathaniel "nolpthae" wrote: Try saving all your files off your thumbdrive, then format our thumbdrive. see if corruption happens again. If it does then it is possible you need a new thumbdrive. " wrote: Hello, I was working on a 10 page document in Word 2007 for which, I saved it on my thumb drive with many of the other documents and they all open up with know problems. The 10 page document was corrupted and I get a message that the file is corrupted and the thumb drive has a serious error. Please advise, Nathaniel |
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