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How to Recover a Word Document


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#1 OFFLINE   docta13

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Posted 24 July 2007 - 08:02 PM

I have fallen victim to a crucial MS Word document that I created becoming corrupted. It looks like the wingdings font when I attempt to open it.

Does anyone know of a good free tool for recovering corrupted documents? Thank you.

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Posted 24 July 2007 - 08:30 PM

Here is a couple of shareware ones that might be able to do it with the trials:
http://www.snapfiles.com/Shareware/system/...tarecovery.html

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Posted 25 July 2007 - 12:21 AM

Are you certain the font hasn't been accidentally changed?
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