Microsoft Office Word documents serve various useful purposes when it comes to retaining important documentation. In such scenarios, corruption to Word documents can become the topmost concern for its users. A corrupt document can however, show abrupt symptoms when attempt is made to open it. The article discusses one such symptom. It further mentions the solutions that can help you to Repair Word File and extract the possible data.

Let's exemplify Word document corruption by citing a suitable realistic example. A Microsoft Word 2003 user creates and manages an important Word document with complex formatting, various images, text, and different useful information. The document opens fine for a long time, but suddenly one day when he/she tries to open it, it won't open. Attempting to open the document displays a 'Show Repairs' dialog box instead of showing the document's actual contents. In addition, the dialog box shows no option that might help prevent it from appearing again.

Explanation

A Microsoft Word 2003 document shows the above symptoms if both of the below conditions are true:

1.You have installed Office 2003 Service Pack 2
2.You are trying to open a corrupted Word document

User Action

The fixes to the given problem have been mentioned below:

Obtain the latest service pack of Microsoft Office. The specific problem of dialog box has been corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 3. However, to enable the hotfix, you need to locate 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options' registry key, create 'DWORD Value ', and modify the 'Value' attribute of BulletProofOnCorruption to '1'.
To repair the corrupt document, open it using Word 'Open and Repair' function. If this doesn't help, you can delete the corrupted document provided its good backup is available. In case no suitable data backup is present, you should use a third-party Word Repair software to repair it.

The commercial applications built to Repair Word File can scan the corrupted Word file and extract its original contents safely. Their interactive and user-friendly design allows the Word users to comprehend the working of utilities quite easily. Also, these utilities are built so that they can be used in each case of logical corruption of documents.