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How to repair texts from faulty Microsoft Word documents

The sequence of actions for repairing texts from an unreadable file in *.doc, *.docx, *.dot, *.dotx, *.rtf formats of any version of Microsoft Word or Rich Text:

Download, install and open the Word Repair Toolbox: https://www.repairtoolbox.com/download/WordRepairToolboxInstall.exe.
Select a corrupted Microsoft Word document.
Click the Analyze button.
Click the Start Recovery button.

How to repair Word files that are infected by virus?

Word Repair Toolbox helps to restore text from corrupted *.doc, *.docx, *.dot, *.dotx and *.rtf files. Word Repair Toolbox designed for recovering text from damaged Microsoft Word and Rich Text documents.

Main capabilities of the Word doc repair tool include:

Restore data from Microsoft Office Word 95/98/2000/XP/2003/2007/2010/2013/2016/2019/2021/2024 and RTF documents
Restore data from Word for Microsoft 365
Repair docx file of Office 2007-2021
Repair doc file of Office 95-2003
Repair Word documents with ASCII formatting
Repair corrupt Word document with Unicode formatting
Export data to MS Word
Save data to disk as a new file
Intuitive, easy-to-use interface of .docx repair tool
MS Word file repair software works with Windows 98/NT 4.0/2000/Me/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11

Word doc repair tool read and extract text without helps of Microsoft Word. It exclude infection by VBA scripts or viruses.

Requirements

Microsoft Word should be installed on your computer (though this is not essential)
Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10/11 or
Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016 and above

Note:

Software cannot recover password protected or encrypted documents.

The software team development of Word Repair Toolbox do not require donate. This application is not distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL) and similar agreements so it is not open source or free tool. Free version of specified Word Repair Toolbox is available to anyone, without some kind of limitations, get it right now and check the efficiency in your personal case.

Buying Word Repair Toolbox

Personal License $25

For personal use for noncommercial purposes

Business License $39

For legal use in enterprise, commercial and governmental environments

Site License $49

For using on several computers of the customer (up to 100 electronic devices) in one building or distributed between several buildings

Cost of online file recovery

Online

$ 10 - per - 1 Gb

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Purchase the License Renewal 1 Year Online

Personal License $12

For personal use for noncommercial purposes

Business License $19

For legal use in enterprise, commercial and governmental environments

Site License $25

For using on several computers of the customer (up to 100 electronic devices) in one building or distributed between several buildings

How it Works?

Download software from website.Download
Start Install software:
1. Press on downloaded installation file in browser
2. Select a downloaded installation file in Windows Explorer and press Enter or double click on it.
Please confirm warning message.
Run installation wizard.
Run program:
1. Double click on icon on desktop
2. or
3. Select from main menu: Start | Programs | Word Repair Toolbox | Word Repair Toolbox.
Please select a damaged Microsoft Word or Rich Text file (files with *.doc, *.docx, *.dot, *dotx, *.rtf extensions) on the first page of the repair wizard in Word Repair Toolbox.
Press Analyze button.
Please confirm a start of recovery process.
The program will read and analyze a damaged file within several minutes. Later on, you will see a text that was recovered from damaged file.
Press on Start recovery button.
Select the type of recovered data:
1. save directly as a Microsoft Word file (Export to MS Word)
2. save as a text file (Save as Plain Text)
Type a file name if you selected item 11.2.
On last page shows a detailed log of recovery process.

Errors

With Word Repair Toolbox you can fix next errors:

The document name or path is not valid. Try these suggestions. Check the file permissions for the document or drive. Use the File Open dialog box to locate the document.
Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges.
Word cannot open this document template.
Word was unable to read the document. It may be corrupt.
FileName.doc file cannot be opened
The file is corrupted and cannot be opened.
Word document is corrupted.
Microsoft Word has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please tell Microsoft about this problem.
The document caused a serious error the last time it was opened. Would you like to continue opening it?
There is not enough memory or disk space to complete the operation.
This document may be corrupt.
The file appears to be corrupted.
The file is corrupt and cannot be opened.
Cannot Locate Microsoft Conversion Library Opening Non-Word File.
The Document Template Is Not Valid.
A file error has occurred.
Works cannot open the document, the file may be in use by another application, the file format may not be supported by any of the installed converters or the file may be corrupt.
The Office Open XML file filename.docx cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents.