Recovering a Word Document

Recovering a Word Document

Postby stephen » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:32 am

Force Word to Try to Recover a File
Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Word 2002 try to automatically recover a damaged document when a problem is detected with the file. You can also "force" Word to try recovery of a document when you open it. To do this, follow these steps:
Click File
Open
Selct your document
in the OPEN button there is a drop down
click the arrow on the drop down and select
Open and Repair


You may have a problem with the document template.
Change the template that is attached to the damaged document to the global template (Normal.dot). If the attached template is Normal.dot, quit Word, and then rename Normal.dot. Restart Word, and then try to duplicate the behavior.

Tools
Templates and Add-Ins
If the Document template box lists a template other than Normal.dot, click Attach
In the Templates folder, click Normal (Normal.dot), and then click Open


or
Start Word with its default settings. You can use the /a switch to start Word.
You can use the /a switch to start Word. When you use the /a switch, Word does not load any add-ins nor does it use your existing Normal.dot template.

Start
Run
Winword /a

Above has been obtained from Microsoft Knowledgebase
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=826864
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