MS Word is an extensively used Word processor, fulfilling all that is desired from a professional application in Office. This is the reason why document corruption is more than a problem for a user. Users generally report that while they try to open a saved document, it doesn’t behave as expected. Instead of showing correct content, repeated line breaks, garbage characters, error messages and incorrect formatting are observed.
The MS Word document composition is simply more than what you comprehend. You can refer them as compound files. In technical terms, it possesses four basic parts: document summary, document content, embedded objects and document header. Now, for Word to act correctly, this is vital that all these objects should be read correctly, which is possible if no flaw exists.
The very first thing which Word does when opening the document is the check of file format, which may be .doc, .docx, rtf, .txt etc. However, in case of incorrect format, it recognizes it and then attempts to convert it, along with the data, in a form what is understandable to Word. But, this may not be possible in each case. The document may get corrupt in case of a Macro Virus, Invalid Digital signature issue or an Invalid Macro issue because of application conflict viz. in case of DOC or DOCX to PDF converter software macros.
On the other hand, the next step after recognizing format or converting it, Word moves to craft the Word object model. This is done on the basis of data present in the document. All the objects are made part of it like sections, paragraphs and fields, which are used later to perform various operations like viewing, printing, and more. Now, any disruption in the process may report document corruption.
Missing or partial data streams, header corruption, unreadable data and certain other errors can be the reason that the document is unable to open or behave correctly. The most general reason of corruption could be the bug in application itself which prevents to store good information in the documents, as a result of which it may fail to get opened correctly.
Next in the queue comes the process, what we call as round-tripping. The repetitive conversion of document in and out of Word formats may corrupt the document, at the point at which it may ask for word repair. Actually while the process; the data is converted in such a way that its tolerance level degrades and results into corruption.
The document corrupted in any of such cases can be recovered by using certain tools known as Word recovery software. The word recovery is a process under which the corrupt Word documents get scanned to remove any corruption in one or more of their components.
Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery is the application, which repairs the document through the most powerful scanning algorithms. This Word repair tool proves effective for all the objects of documents and is compatible with Word 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007.