Corrupt Word file recovery.

OpenOffice. Also fairly good with Corrupt Excel docs.

start
run
%TEMP%
see if any of the things there are similar size / date to the corrupt doc and make a copy of them if all else fails (worked better with older versions)

Use restoration / rest2514 to try to undelete an earlier copy (straw + clutch)

RANT
20 years ago ALL word processors made backup copies of documents by default. Check in Word - Tools - Options - Save. if the option for always make backup copy is ticked then go looking for [documentname].WBK file. If the option is not ticked then Blame microsoft for loosing your doument and carry that chip on your shoulder , any computer that runs word probably has room for thousands of docs so WTF is it there for ???. Sorry I mean tick the box. Turn off fast save as that just saves typing not necessialrly in the same order the document appears on screen, or in english it makes your document a little more likely to be gibberish when recovered. And Word does NOT autosave (again a feature found on all decent word processors in the 1980's) it only saves "auto recovery" info which is not as reliable as a full save. Use Ctrl-S instead (back in the 1980's this was a single keypress - F2 )

For Excel you have to turn on the always make backup copy on a per file basis.

/RANT I just have lost too much time on word and excel docs being lost because microsoft still haven't implimented features that were industry standard back in the 80's :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: