Word file will not open (Is it a corrupt file?)

JordanBryc

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We have a folder on the server with some word files that now cannot be opened by anyone. The error we get is windows cannot start the converter mswrd632. I tried the fix listed in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973904 but that seems more for if the problem was happening for every file and not just these few and we can open and edit other word files. Is there some way perhaps these files were saved incorrectly or something?
 

Ironfisst

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Sep 29, 2015
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I can simple and easy manual tricks to repair corrupted word document. Follow these steps to repair word document:

Step 1. Open MS Word application
Step 2. Click on File and select Open option
Step 3. Now, select corrupt Word file stored in your system
Step 4. Click on the small arrow shown at the right corner of Open button
Step 5. Then, select Open and Repair option.


Hope this manual tricks repair your word document, if this trick fails to repair to your document then but any third-party tool.
 

itmoba

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Post the output the header and footer of the file so that it's possible to determine its magic cookie. (Do not confuse file header/footer with document header/footer -- the two are very different.)