When your Word documents(*.DOC files) are damaged or corrupt due to various reasons and you cannot open them normally, you can use Advanced Word Repair to scan the Word files and recover the data from the files as much as possible.
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Start Advanced Word Repair. |
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Before recovering damaged or corrupt Word file with Advanced Word Repair, please close Microsoft Word and any other applications that may access the Word file. |
| Step 2 |
| Select the damaged or corrupt Word .doc file to be repaired: |
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You can input the Word .doc file name directly or click  button to browse and select the file. You may also click  button to find the file to be repaired on the local computer. |
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| Step 3 |
| By default, Advanced Word Repair will save the fixed Word file as xxxx_fixed.doc, where xxxx is the name of the source Word .doc file. For example, for source Word file Damaged.doc, the default fixed file will be Damaged_fixed.doc. If you want to use another name, then please select or set it accordingly: |
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| You can input the fixed file name directly or click button to browse and select the fixed file. |
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| Step 4 |
Click  button, Advanced Word Repair will start scanning and repairing the source Word file. Progress bar  will indicate the repair progress.
After the repair process, if the source Word file can be repaired successfully, you will see a messagebox like this:
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| Step 5 |
Now you can open the fixed Word file with Microsoft Word or other compatible applications. |
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The demo version will display the following messagebox to show the success of the recovery:
where you can click  button to see a preview of the repaired Word document, like this:
According to the preview, you can know whether Advanced Word Repair can recover your Word file successfully and get what you want. However, the demo version will not save the fixed Word file. Please order the full version to get the file. |
