How to Fix a Corrupt Word 2010 Document?

Everyone is pretty familiar with Microsoft Word 2010 document and currently running version of MS Word is Word 2010 for Windows. Even though Microsoft Word 2013 has released recently, many users still prefer Word 2010. Word application is considered as the best word-processing application for creating, editing, formatting and printing electronic documents. MS Word has become an extremely useful application for performing various business or personal activities. In offices you may use it for creating letters, memos, legal copies and other documents, where as in the field of educational you will use it for maintaining documentation of projects, making resumes, etc.

Even though Microsoft Word 2010 is advanced version, corruption of Word file is unavoidable issue. The Word 2010 document that you have created with lots of hard work may become inaccessible, when it is damaged or corrupted due to any reason. Word file corruption affects lots of users when they don’t have backup of damaged Word document and it is one of the main reasons of Word file inaccessibility.

Causes for Word 2010 document corruption are:

  • MS Word DOCX file gets corrupted, if you change its file extension
  • Macro virus infection on MS Word document may damage its header
  • Bad sectors on hard drive containing your Word files might corrupt them
  • Unexpected power failure while using MS 2010 DOCX or improper termination of Word DOCX file can cause corruption

You might know that in order to deal with such corruptions, Microsoft Office has provided built in command named “Open and Repair”. But what if this option does not help? Well, to help you in this situation, many repair tools has been launched and one of them is Yodot DOC Repair.

Overview of the software

Yodot DOC Repair can fix your Word 2010 documents after any sort of corruption. It is read-only software that repairs Word DOCX file without affecting the source file and creates new file to save the repaired file. Other than 2010, it has potential to fix Word documents created using Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007 applications. It repairs both DOC and DOCX types of Word files and recovers images, tables, embedded images, bulleted lists, drawings etc from it. Yodot DOC repair works compatibly on Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and even on latest Windows 8 operating system to fix damaged Word files without caring about the severity of corruption.

Guidelines to repair Word 2010 DOCX file

  • Download Yodot DOC Repair software and install it to your Windows computer
  • Launch the application and follow the steps mentioned on the screen
  • Browse for the corrupt Word file by hitting on “Browse” button
  • After you select the corrupted Word file, click on the “Repair” button to begin the repair process
  • The application repairs the corrupted Word file, which can be viewed by looking at the progress bar
  • After the repair process gets completed, you can preview the repaired Word document
  • At last, save the repaired files to the desired location

Tips for Future Use

  • Backup your essential Word files once in week and do not forcefully close Word documents
  • Make important Word files “Read only” in order to prevent unwanted modification
  • Do not save repaired Word files in the same location from where you are repairing

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