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"When I was transferring the MS Word document from my Windows laptop to the USB drive, my laptop shuted down suddenly because of insufficient power. And now I fail to open the Word document. Is there any way to repair my broken Word document to make it accessible again?"
A broken MS Word file can be caused by interruption while document transmission, virus attack, header file corruption and so on. If a Word file is broken, it might show unreadable characters or even be unopenable. To repair a broken Word file, you can use the MS Word internal function or take advantage of the MS Word repair tool. In the following part, we will illustrate these 2 ways in detail for you.
There is a built-in function named Open and Repair in MS Word program, which may help fix your broken Word documents. To try this function, you can follow the ways here.
Step 1: Open MS Word app.
Step 2: Select Open option from the left pane and choose Browse option under Open.
Step 3: In the shown Open window, locate to the place where the broken Word file is saved and choose the target Word document. Then, click Open button in the lower right corner to select Open and Repair option.
Lastly, double-click the repaired Word document to see whether it can be used as normal.
Word's Open and Repair command doesn't work on repairing your broken Word file? Don't panic, iSunshare Word Repair Genius, a leading MS Word Repair tool is here to help. Specialize in fixing the broken MS Word.docx file, iSunshare Word Repair Genius returns you the normal Word file after you add the broken Word file to it. To try such a magic tool, only 4 steps are needed.
Attention: You can only use this tool to repair .docx format Word file.
Step 1: Install iSunshare Word Repair Genius on your Windows computer.
Step 2: Run the Word Repair tool and click Open button.
Step 3: Select the broken .docx file to repair in the Open dialog. And the tool will automatically recover the broken Word document, once the document is added.
When the file repair process ends, you can see a tips pop-out.
Step 4: Click Save button to choose a destination to store the recovered Word document.
Now, you can open the saved Word file for usage.
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