Repairing MS Word after Normal.dot file is damagedFile Repair Tool Blog

Microsoft Word is the frequent using word processing program, while working with the MS Word for document creation you need to use the default template or import the customized template. To design your template according to your choice you need to import customized Word template. Generally default template is being used in MS word.

Normal.dot is the default template file and it contains all main setting of word. Whenever changes are done to word’s settings such as changing the default font to a different font, the change is stored in normal.dot so that your preferred alphabet will gets loaded up each time when you start MS word.

If you want to apply customized template then also the Normal.dot file will load because along with customize styles by default the MS Word enables you to use global styles. It the Normal.dot file gets damaged you need to do Word file repair because until the Normal.dot file is not repaired, Microsoft Word will not start. Here are some listed error messages that will help identifying corruption in the Normal.dot file:

• HRESULT: 0x800A142D VB Error: 5165 “Word cannot open the existing [square]” 

• HRESULT: 0x800A175D VB Error: 5981 “Cannot open macro storage”
• HRESULT: 0x8001010A VB Error: -2147417846 “The message filter indicated that the application is busy”

So first resolve these error messages to make use of your MS word without any trouble.

How to repair Normal.dot file

The best way to fix this issue is to apply hit and trail method. Executing the below given steps will help resolving the issue mentioned above:

1. Open the C drive. Here, C drive is assumed as your default drive.
2. Open the Documents and Settings folder.
3. Open the folder having user name. Use that user name which is specified at the time of installing Windows operating system.
4. Open the Application Data folder.
5. After that open the Microsoft folder.
6. Now open the Templates folder.
7. Make a right-click on the Normal.dot file and select the Rename option.
8. Rename the file.
9. At last open the file with MS Word and see if it is opened.

If the files gets opened that means your problem is solved but if the file still not get opened then repair the corrupt Normal.dot file with the help of third party Word File Repair Tool. This software is especially designed for repairing and recovering corrupt or inaccessible (.doc) and (.docx) files back.

Once you select the Normal.dot file to repair with Word File Repair Tool the software the software prompts you to click the Repair button. on clicking the Repair button, the software starts repairing the selected file. Within few moments, the file will be repaired, which can be accessed with any version of MS Word.

With this software you can fix out your various problem such as it very safely repair and recovers your MS Word Files, it allows you to take preview of the files to be repaired and recovered, it can resolve any error issue either it is minor or complex one.

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.