Measures to avoid corruption

In most of the corruption scenarios, you are left helpless as you cannot do anything to extract data on your own. However, you can certainly consider steps which would help keeping corruption issues at bay. Here is a list of preventive steps which can be observed:

• You should never close a document abruptly as this would result in corruption and data loss. The correct way is to close or exit MS word is by clicking 'close' on the File menu.
• If you are using a word file on a network, it is important to close the network connections when a file is not in use. This should be observed as incidents like network connection failures may lead to corruption of word files.
• Do not save or open your Word document in any other program as this may lead to data inaccessibility and corruption
• Virus also target word files, therefore, it is very important to scan your system regularly in order to avoid any virus infection. Moreover, it is advised to regularly update your anti-virus program.

Recovering a word file

If you think it is impossible to recover data from a corrupt word file, then think again. Many word repair software have evolved which vouch to recover data successfully even from a severely damaged .doc file.

These third-party utilities employ improved scanning algorithms to repair Word file and recover data within a small span of time. You need not be a technical person to use a word recovery software as they come equipped with a simple and graphical user-interface.