Microsoft Word is the best application ever developed in the category of word processing. The feature-rich application offers a lot to its users and helps them to create impressive and interesting documents quite easily. However, while working with MS Word documents, you certainly cannot escape corruption issues. A Word file can become corrupt in many instances including application malfunction, virus attacks, global template corruption,macro corruption and others. In such scenarios, it is advisable to seek assistance from clean and updated backup copies. But, if you come across a document corruption situation when you do not have a valid backup to restore the information, you need not worry. Wondering why? By putting in little efforts, you can search and download an efficient third-party Word repair software.

Consider a situation, wherein, you have an important Word 2003 document containing information regarding business transactions taken place in a particular year. You try and open the document to extract some vital figures, but receive the following error message:

"The document name or path is not valid. Try these suggestions.
- Check the file permissions for the document or drive.
- Use the File Open dialog box to locate the document.
C:\...\path\filename."


Cause

The above error message could surface in the below-discussed situations:

• If you do not have correct permissions to access the Word document in question
• If you are trying to open a deleted file using its shortcut
• If you are trying to open a document and putting in a wrong name. You might have renamed the document
• Or if you are trying to open a corrupt document

Resolution

The following workarounds can be implemented to perform Word recovery:

• Check for the necessary permissions required to open the file
• Ensure that the file exists on the system
• Open the document with a correct name
• If the document is corrupt, you must observe the following steps:
1. You can try opening the document in draft mode without updating links
2. You can try inserting the document as a file in a document whilst leaving the last paragraph
3. Alternatively, you can use the Recover Text from Any File Converter

If you are unable to address the corruption problem, then you must grab professional Word repair software.