Mend Word Encountered an Error and needs to Close

“I have copied few documents from my colleague system to my computer. But every time when I try to open the Word file, it displays an error message that ‘encountered an error and needs to close’. Those Word documents were related to my business and I cannot ask my colleague again as he is out of town Can anyone please help me to solve my problem, I am running out of time”

Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity application that first started in the year 1990. Since then, Microsoft has released various versions of the suite and Microsoft Word is one of them. According to Microsoft Support Online, if you use Word 2007 document on Windows XP computer then it may become corrupted and display odd behavior such as "encountered an error and needs to close." But error message on a Word document does not mean that you will never be able to open it again. As Microsoft has introduced many Word document versions, it is aware of the fact that compatibility issue may arise and turn it into a corrupted file. So it has provided a manual way to overcome corruption issues. Just go through the procedure given below:

• Open Windows Explorer by clicking on “Computer” and click on “C” drive
• Click on “Program Files” folder present in Windows “C” Drive
• The default destination of the Word file would be Program files and in case you have installed it in different location then navigate it to the location where Word application is installed
• Now click on “Microsoft office” folder and then “Office”
• You will find many files and folders when you click on “Office” folder
• Scroll down and right click on “Winword.exe” to choose properties
• Click on Compatibility tab and press to clear all the check boxes and at last hit upon “OK”

This is the best way to fix the Word error message “encountered an error and needs to close”. But few users fail to get succeeded in this method as header of the file is severely corrupted sometimes. So in such situation one can make use of DOC repair software to get it fixed on Windows computer.

Resolve error Word has encountered an error and needs to close:

Yodot DOC Repair software is the praiseworthy Word repair software which will help you to remove “Microsoft Word has encountered a problem and needs to close” message and change it to healthy and accessible file. This application is designed in such a way that, it will assist you to repair Word documents of any size. As it is 100% safe and virus free, it will not damage your Word file and other files present in your computer. It has the ability to repair Word documents of the versions 2000, 2002, 2007, 2010, and the latest 2013 on various operating systems namely Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 8.1, windows 8, Windows 7, Windows server 2003 and 2008. Besides this, it provides “Preview” option which allows you to determine the quality of repaired Word file prior to saving to preferred location.

Steps to repair corrupted Word file:

• Download and install Yodot DOC Repair software to your Windows computer
• Run the application and follow the guidelines that appear on the screen
• Select Word file that need to get repaired and just click on “Repair”
• Application starts repairing Word file and once it gets finished you will get a message stating successful repair of the Word file
• Preview Word file and save them in a desired destination

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