Microsoft Find Fast Indexer or Find Fast is the tool included in Windows that builds indexes in order to find the documents quickly from Open dialog box in Microsoft Office programs. A shortcut to Find Fast is created and placed in startup program group when you install Office on your system. The Find Fast Control Panel icon allows you to delete and create indexes and more. You can also set it to automatically perform the indexing task. But at times when you run this tool, you get an error that it cannot continue indexing with a particular Microsoft Word document. The prime reason for this behavior is document corruption which needs to be repaired. In cases when no valid file backup is available, you can use advanced word fix tools.
As an example, when you try to run Microsoft Find Fast Indexer program, you might receive the following error message on screen:
“An unexpected error occurred while Find Fast was indexing the file <file name>.”
The tool crashes after this error message.
Cause
Microsoft Find Fast Indexer program displays this error message when it tries to index a corrupted or damaged Word document. It gives this error when Find Fast tries to read such damaged document.
Solution
There can be different methods to fix the existing issue:
. Move the corrupted Word document to the folder or drive that you are not using to index with Find Fast. You can perform this task using Windows Explorer. Locate the damaged document and paste to the target folder or drive.
. Repair the damaged Word document:
. Try to open the document with ‘Open and Repair’ feature
. Save the document in HTML or RTF file format and convert it back in MS Word format
. Create a new document and copy the whole document except the last paragraph mark that contains the original corruption
. Open the damaged document in WordPad
. Use commercial Word Repair tools. These are safe Word Recovery software that scan the corrupted document and restore it at safe location
. Try turning off the Find Fast program
Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery is a powerful utility to repair and restore damaged Word documents. It supports safe word repair for Word 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It is an effective tool to restore all objects of documents like images, charts, drawings, macros, bulleting etc. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.
