Opening the files of the earlier version into Word 2007 may yield to the document corruption like problems. You may get the following error message:

“’Unable to read the document.
It may be corrupt. Try the following….”

If you use the ‘save as’ option to save the documents of the version like Word 2002 to the latest version Word 2007, the documents may have found corrupted on the newly saved file. While saving the document objects in a sequence by the method of cut and paste would not yield these corruption results. The word corruption in any case would need Word recovery to get the documents back into action.

Rebuilding the whole document would not be possible in few of the cases, either due to the large size of the document or the unavailability of the resource. Well the reason for this error message can be any out of:

•    The document was already corrupted and the fact has been realized when you performed this operation. The donor document corruption can be a result of virus attack, application malfunction or unexpected system shutdown like problems.
•    Another reason could be the format related problems. Word 2007 is using the XML format as the default one while the one used in the earlier versions (Word 97-2003) is different. The new XML format is much more stable and an added bonus is the file sizes are smaller.

In either of the case, the most important thing is the data. To recover from the data loss situation, you need to have the word repair tool. The corrupted document may possess some business critical information and the non-existence of either of them may lead to the unwanted conditions.

The Word recovery tools come under the name of the Word recovery software. The job of these software is to scan the corrupted documents and thus enabling the word repair. These software are applicable in each case of document corruption and for each object of the document.

Choosing the best one among the various options of the word recovery software is highly recommended. This is due to the reason that the else case would corrupt your document out of the word repair feasibility.

Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery software is the master of all word recovery software. The software performs a thorough scan of the corrupted documents and enables perfect Word repair.

This software is applicable for Word 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007. The user need not be technically savvy to use the software. Just download the free demo version of the software from the Stellar’s website to have a preview of the documents which can be recovered.