If you prompt to know the corruption of the Word document by some error message or garbage characters, the situation can be worse. The unusual behavior of the application occurs in some of the cases when MS Word tries to carry out decisions about what should happen next which is based on the incorrect data of the corrupted document. However the correct recognizing and Word repair methods would help in you in several means.

Recognize

Corrupted documents show some of the peculiar characters and symptoms, which are probably not the part of the program’s design. Some of these include:

  • Incorrect document formatting
  • Characters which can’t be read
  • Processing error messages
  • Hang or crash of the system itself when the particular file is being attempted to load
  • Infinite repagination 

But you can’t state for sure that any of the mentioned symptom is due to the document corruption only. Well, to attribute it certainly, you need to check the occurring behavior for the other documents. You can also check this behavior for the other applications. Renaming the templates attached or processing the questioning file on the other computer and then revising to check the occurring behavior can also help.

If the other application is not showing any similar problem and the duplicating the behavior is not helping then the problem is the damaged document.

Repair

Some of the tricks would help you to correct the document and hence to have Word repair. Depending upon the symptom being enlightened, these methods are as follows:

  • Try to open the document in the draft mode. This trick is valuable when you can’t even open the corrupted document in other views.
  • If just the last paragraph mark of the document is being problematic, which contains whole of the information about the document, then you can get back the text of the document by inserting this as a file in a new document.
  • Try to open the file by linking to it.
  • Attempt to strip out the header information of the file through the command prompt. But be cautious as all the information of the file may get lost.
  • Attempt to have Word recovery from any file converter.
  • If neither of the method works then you can use the third party applications called Word recovery software.

 Word recovery can be very well carried out by the software applications, oriented for same. They repair and restore the corrupted documents in the effective manner without altering the content of the document.

Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery is the best ever made Word repair software which uses the most powerful algorithms to repair and restore the corrupted document. This Word repair utility can be used for Word 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007. Viable for all the Word objects, the software maintains the integrity of the data and avails the interactive user interface.