Word file 2013

[lucalewis251]

Hello,

 

When I try to open docx file (created in Word 2013) Word shows the following information:

 

“Word was unable to read this document. It may be corrupt“

 

 

Who has encountered a similar problem? How to treat it?

[phoenexus79]

Use Word's text converter it is one of the methods from Microsoft Corp., but another solutions collected from Internet space, one of them has a special status and is actual only for complicated cases with MS Word documents

 

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/5d2c9410-3420-4156-907f-60474b26102a/i-upgrad-office-pro-2007-to-office-standard-2010?forum=itprovistaapps

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/i-upgrad-office-pro-2007-to-office-standard-2010/

https://word.recoverytoolbox.com/Recovery Toolbox for Word

 

Recovery From Temporary Files

Another method is to locate the temporary file of the original file, usually the file hidden and stored on the same folder as the original.  Go to “Tools” | “Folder Options” | “View” and enable ‘View all files’. Enable View hidden files and locate the hidden Microsoft Office file.

 

This temporary file will have a few different letters after the tilde (or squiggly line “ ~”) .

• A word document file will look like ~wrdxxxx.tmp
• A temp document file will look like ~wrfxxxx.tmp
• An auto recovery file will look like ~wraxxxx.tmp

 

Copy the file to a designated folder and rename the file extension from .tmp to .doc.

And you are done, and also saved hours of work. 

If you find any problem with this method, please let us know in the comments, we will do our best to help you out.

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

Hmm, try attaching it here and maybe someone here can reproduce the error or find a way to relay you the contents of the document (by screenshots perhaps).

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

You know that YCM isn't a tech support forum, right?

 

But otherwise, Word may be unable to read the file if you're using an older version of the program (you made the document in Word 2013; are you using the same program to open this or a different version)

[Lydia584]

Hi,lucalewis251

 

When a Word document file is corrupted, then you can try several methods to recover it:

1. First of all, you can try the recovery function integrated with Microsoft Word, as follows:

1) On the File menu, click Open.
2) In the Look in list, click the drive, folder, or Internet location that contains the file that you want to open.
3) In the folder list, locate and open the folder that contains the file.
4) Select the file that you want to recover.
5) Click the arrow next to the Open button, and then click Open and Repair.

You may find more information about this at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893672/en-us (for Word 2007/2010/2013)

2. Second, since Word 2003, it provides a "Document Recovery" or "AutoRecover" mechanism so that when Word is shutdown abnormally, the Word file being edited will be recovered when Word is launched next time, which makes the file recovery possible.

See below:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316951/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827099/
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/do-you-want-to-view-recovered-files-again-HA010354297.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/automatically-save-and-recover-office-files-HP010140729.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/recover-your-office-files-HP010354299.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/use-the-document-recovery-task-pane-to-recover-files-HP003078411.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/word-help/use-the-document-recovery-task-pane-to-recover-your-files-HP010140613.aspx

for more detailed information.

3. Third, you may also try OpenOffice to open and repair the corrupted document. OpenOffice is a free and open source software which is compatible with Word document. Sometimes it can open the corrupt document that Word cannot open.

You can get OpenOffice at  http://www.openoffice.org/

4. For docx files, they are actually a group of files compressed in Zip file format. Therefore, sometimes, if the corruption is only caused by the Zip file, then you can use Zip repair tools such as WinRAR at http://www.rarlab.com to repair the file, as follows:

4.1 Assuming the corrupt Word file is a.docx, then you need to rename it to a.zip
4.2 Start WinRAR, go to "Tools > Repair Archive" to repair a.zip and generated a fixed file a_fixed.zip.
4.3 Rename a_fixed.zip back to a_fixed.docx
4.4 Using Excel to open a_fixed.docx.

There may still be some warnings when opening the fixed file in Word, just let ignore it and Word will try to open and repair the fixed file. If the file can be opened successfully, then you can just save the contents into another error-free file.

5. If 1, 2, 3 and 4 does not work, then you may try third-party tools such as DataNumen Word Repair at

https://www.datanumen.com/word-repair/

It provides a free demo version so that you can try to see if the data you want can be recovered or not.

Good luck!