By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
If you spend a few hours in writing a document, and one day when you want to open and view it, but to find it get corrupted or damaged, how desperate you will be! It is annoying when you try to open a Word file but only to be told "Word was unable to read this document. It may be corrupt…", "Word experienced an error trying to open the file", "The file is corrupt and cannot be opened", or any other prompts showing a corruption error happened to your Word document. Do you have a damaged Word file and want to know how to open it? In this article, you will learn several ways to open a corrupt Word file effectively.
You can use a Word document repair tool to help you open corrupt Word document. iSunshare Word Repair Genius is such a professional Word repair tool and it can be applied to MS Word versions of 2007/2010/2013/2016/2019. It can be used to repair corrupted/damaged Word .docx file without influencing its original content, formatting and layout. You can open corrupt Word document with iSunshare Word Repair Genius easily and quickly.
Step 1. Download the tool of iSunshare Word Repair Genius from the official website and install the software on your Windows computer. Make sure that you have the Microsoft Word program closed firstly and then you can launch the software.
Step 2. Click the Open button to navigate to the corrupt Word file that you want to fix and import the corrupt Word file to the software so as to repair it.
Once you have added the file to the software, the software will try to repair the corrupt Word file automatically and instantly.
Step 3. Several seconds later, the file repairing will be completed and you will be prompted "The file is restored". Then tap OK button to proceed.
Step 4. Click the Save button to set a location to store the repaired Word file as a new file.
Step 5. After the repaired Word file is saved, you will be prompted "The file was saved successfully". You can choose to either click the Yes button to open the repaired Word document automatically right now or click the No button to open the repaired Word document manually later.
In this part, you will learn two Microsoft Word built-in options to try to open corrupt Word file. One option is "Open and Repair", and the other one option is "Text Recovery Converter (Recover Text from Any File)". If you don't want to rely on a third-party-tool to open corrupt Word documents for you, you can attempt these two built-in solutions instead first of all.
Open your Microsoft Word on your computer first of all, click the option of File on the ribbon, and then go to Open > Browse to navigate to the location where your corrupt Word (.docx) file is stored and select the corrupted file. Click the down arrow icon beside the Open button and you will see several options. Choose the option of "Open and Repair" and then your Microsoft Word will try to repair and open the corrupt Word document for you.
Similarly, launch Microsoft Word on your PC, click File > Open > Browse to browse to the damaged Word file that you want to open and then select it. Click the down arrow icon to open the drop-down menu of file types, choose the option of "Recover Text from Any File", and click the Open button to proceed. Then Word will make every effort to recover any text from the file for you.
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