subject: How To Identify And Repair The Damaged Word Document [print this page] After the Word document is damaged, it starts showing unexpected behavior that helps you to identify that the document has already been damaged. Following are the points that describe if the word document is damaged:
Repeated repagination starts occurring
Layout of the document gets abruptly change
Formatting of the Word document gets abruptly change
When you open the document, you see unreadable characters on the computer screen
Computer starts hanging when you open the document
You start getting error messages while trying to open the document
To help you deal with the damaged word document, this article describes the detailed process of dealing with the damaged Word documents. Mentioned below are the steps that help you resolve the issue:
1.Open any other word document you have. If you see the same issue then it means the problem is with the application itself. In that case, you are suggested to reinstall MS Word.
2.If other documents are not showing any sign of damage then first you should change the template to global template that is Normai.dot. Following steps help you to change the template to Normal.dot:
1.Open the document showing inappropriate behavior.
2.Select Tools > Templates and Add-Ins. The Templates and Add-Ins dialog box appear.
3.See if Normal.dot is appearing in the Document Template text box. If yes then click the OK button else click the Attach button. If you click the Attach button, the Attach Template dialog box appears.
4.Select the Normal.dot file and click the Open button.
5.Click the OK button.
3.Restart MS Word.
4.If you still see the same behavior of the word document then it simply means that the document is highly damaged. Problem is not due to template.
Now, when you have identified that the problem is in the document then what will you do to repair the document and recover the lost data back. In this situation, we suggest you to use the doc repair tool. The doc repair tool thoroughly scans the damaged word document and perfectly handles all issues. The software supports the .doc files created using MS Word 2007, 2003, 2002, XP, 97, and 95. The doc repair software can be downloaded for the free evaluation so that you can try it to know whether it can repair the word document or not.
