How to Repair Corrupt Word DOCX File?

Published by Jacob Martin on September 22, 2014

At the time when you were working on the DOCX files, unexpectedly the system got shut down and so you unintentionally hit on the power button. Now you are unable to open the DOCX file when you are trying to open it for the next time.

Now in all possible ways, you want to open your  file back to working state as it might had a lot of important data in like passwords of your several social accounts and bank account details too on a particular file. Sometimes you even tried the “Open and Repair” option on the Word application which sometimes failed to repair that file.

Settle down; in the above case, you need to understand that the Word DOCX got corrupted and so you are unable to open it. In such cases, repairing a file by using Word DOCX file repair tool you can easily access your file. Let us go through some important points before knowing any additional details of repairing this file which damages your file.

The corruption of Word DOCX file takes place because of several reasons which has been mentioned below:

• Improper Download: The file may easily get corrupted at the time of uploading or downloading if the internet is using is unsecure.
• Header Corruption: Some animations, clip arts are virus infected, inserting those animations and clip arts into your file then, the header of that file get corrupted. So you should be very careful when you are handling the DOCX file otherwise there is a chance to lose the data in the Word documents for corruption.
• Round Tripping: The process of converting the Word documents from one format to another is known as round tripping such as DOC to DOCX and vice-versa. There is a chance for corruption of document file while converting the Word file format.
• Other Reasons: CRC error which comes across at the time when you share that particular file through network and virus of Word document file with Macros viruses will surely harm the structure file because of which you will lose access to the file content.

You have to use DOCX file repair tool to make your corrupted document file to access again. This tool helps you to fix corrupt files on your Windows computer. This software resulted repaired Word document file in a short time. It supports to repair on Office 2000 and its above version. You can preview the repaired file on the software UI after the repairing gets done. You need to save the repaired file on your computer drive if you are using the demo version.

 How to use the repair tool:

• Download and install Repair tool on your computer.
• Run the software and select the DOCX file to repair.
• Let the software scan the file to fix it.
• After scanning gets over, you will receive the message of  successful repair.
• On the software screen, you can preview the repaired file.
• Select the path where the DOCX file can be saved on your computer drive except the scanned drive.

 Important tips:

• Keep the backup of important document files to restore in case of any data loss unexpectedly.
• To keep the systems clean from viruses and keep away from file corruption, always update anti-virus application on the computer.
• Use UPS to avoid unexpected system shut down because of power failure which may cause corruption of the file.

STEPS TO RESOLVE THE ERROR:

Step 1:  User needs to just select a single file by clicking on a ‘Select File’ option or simply on a folder that contains all word files. They need to click on the ‘Select Folder’ or need to find the file clicking on the ‘Find File’ option.

 Step 2:  As a list of selected file is displayed, user need to thus make the selection of the Word file by using checkbox that they want to repair. They need to select all files by marking the ‘Select All’ checkbox. After that they need to  click on the ‘Scan’ button.

 Step 3: He/she could easily saw the preview of the scanned file just by clicking on the file in both ‘Full document; and ‘Filtered text’ formats by clicking the tab given on the middle pane of the window.

 Step 4:  If the scanned word file sis a*.doc file, then there will a available preview in “Raw text” format along with the ‘Filtered Text’ formats and ‘Full Document’ and ‘Filtered Text’ formats.

Step 5:   For repairing, user need to simply click on the click on the ‘Start Repair’ option.  Then they need to make selection of the option for saving their file from ‘Save Document’ dialog box and thus click ‘Ok’ button.

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