Extract Text from Damaged Word Document

Have you ever encountered a situation wherein Word file is damaged and not opening? And you lose crucial information like text, drawing objects, tables, charts, graphics, etc. from that Word document. Then go through this page and know how to recover text and other objects from such damaged Word files on Windows OS with ultimate ease.

Word documents are very prone to corruption and damage due to various reasons. When Word file gets damaged then user can no longer open such file to access its information and suffer unfriendly data loss. Most commonly occurring scenarios that render damage to Word file are listed over here:

• Damage to file header of a Word document due to software conflicts
• Word document undergone severe virus intrusion
• Malfunctioning of Word application due to incorrect migration from one version to another, missing of program files like .dll file related to MS Word, etc.
• Frequently changing file type from DOC to other file types like PDF, XML, etc. and vice-versa
• CRC error during file transfer process over network
• Corrupt attributes of Word document and compatibility issues

In all these scenarios, Word document can get damaged and result to inaccessibility of text and other information from it. User may worry about how to recover text from damaged Word document? This can be resolved by following few methods mentioned below:

• Method 1: Make use of ‘Recover Text from Any File’ option in Microsoft Word. Open MS Word application, click on Open button under file menu. Then click on drop-down button at the option which specifies file type. Then, select Recover Text from Any file option.
• Method 2: Employ inbuilt repair utility to fix damaged Word file. Open Word application -> click on Office button -> Hit on Open -> Browse for the damaged Word file to be repaired and select it -> now, click for drop down list of Open button -> Choose open and repair option from the list and click OK.
• Method 3: Make use of reliable third party Word file repair utility to fix the damaged document and extract text from it.

Which is the best software to repair damaged Word file and to recover text from it?

Yodot DOC Repair is the ultimate solution for fixing damaged Word file on various Windows computers. This software genuinely repairs damaged, corrupted and also encrypted Word documents of file types DOC and DOCX without altering the file contents. Hence, most of the industry experts refer this tool for successful repair process of Microsoft Word documents that are corrupt after malware attack, CRC error, macro error, invalid file format error and other reasons. Its powerful repair strategy can easily mend DOC / DOCX files from Microsoft Word versions 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 and helps to restore text, graphics, tables, charts, images and everything else from Word documents. Also, one can utilize this software all Windows OS based computers like Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2008 and Server 2003.

Procedural steps to restore text from damaged Word document:

• Download Yodot DOC Repair software on your Windows system and install it
• Launch the product after completion of installation process
• In main screen, browse for the damaged Word file to be repaired and select it
• Soon after choosing it press “Repair” button
• View the status of repair process with the help of Progress bar
• Successful repair process results in fixed Word file from which text can be accessed easily
• View the repaired file contents by pressing on Preview button
• Then save this repaired Word document to desired location on system drive or on other external storage devices to access its content

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