Unreadable Word 2003 Document and Word Recovery

Sometimes when you try to open a Word document in Microsoft Office Word 2003, it shows that Word is unable to open the document. It makes the content of Word file inaccessible and cause data loss. This situation occurs due to file corruption. So, you need to perform word recovery to repair the affected document and regain your valuable data.

When you attempt to open a damaged Microsoft Office Word 2003 document, the document may not open with below error message:

“Word was unable to read this document. It may be corrupt.
Try one or more of the following:
* Open and Repair the file.
* Open the file with the Text Recovery converter.
(C:\Documents and Settings\...\test.doc)”

Such Microsoft Word behavior leads to data loss. You should find the cause of this problem and perform Word Recovery.

As stated in the above error message, the problem takes place due to Word document corruption. Word corruption prevents the document from opening normally and thus the data becomes inaccessible.

To resolve this behavior, install the latest service pack of Microsoft Office Word 2003 that includes a hotfix for this problem. After installing the service pack with hotfix, practice the following steps to enable the hotfix:

1. Open Registry Editor and locate the following registry entry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options
2. Go to the Edit menu, highlight New and select DWORD Value.
3. Type BulletProofOnCorruption and press ENTER.
4. Right-click BulletProofOnCorruption and click Modify.
5. In Value data box, type 1 and click OK.
6. Exit Registry Editor and restart Word.

This method is helpful in solving most of such issues, but it can not repair word document that is already corrupted. To repair the damaged document, you should opt for Word Recovery Software.

These are powerful applications that can repair and restore damaged Word documents in almost all Word corruption scenarios. The software are capable of retrieving all Word objects including tables, text, images, drawings, charts, clip arts, headers, footers and footnotes.

Word 2007 Error - .docx Cannot Be Opened Because There Are Problems With the Content

Office Open XML is new format that has been introduced in Office 2007. Based on XML and ZIP archive technologies, a file saved in MS Word 2007 is divided into document parts. Each of these parts defines a part of overall file contents. Thus it becomes easy to create and modify Word 2007 document, either programmatically or manually.

Such files are saved with .docx extension. But they can catch odds of corruption due to unexpected shutdown, virus attack, application faults and other similar causes. However, if your recent file backup than you can easily recover and restore the file. But backup issues necessitate the use Word Recovery applications.

While trying to open a Word document, you might receive the below error message:

"The Office Open XML File xxxxx.docx cannot be opened because there are problems with the content."

Where, xxxx represents the name of Word 2007 document. Further, when you click Details of the error message, you get another error:

"The file is corrupt and cannot be opened."

Or

"Word found unreadable content. Do you want to recover the contents of this document, click yes."

It means that Word document is corrupted and it usually occurs when you perform round-tripping i.e. change the word file format into another file format and convert it back into Word 2007 file format. Other possible reasons of file corruption could be application faults,malfunction errors, unexpected shutdown, network errors etc.

Corrupted Word document can be repaired by using any of these methods:

• Open the document with 'Open and Repair' feature.
• Try saving the document as HTML, TXT or a word processing application format.
• Try to copying all the contents of the file to new document, leaving the last paragraph mark.
• Use your recent file backup to restore the corrupt document
• If the same issue persists, scan your damaged file using Word Repair software. These are advanced word recovery tools built with safe technology to repair and restore corrupted Word (.doc) documents.

Error Messages when Microsoft Word Start

MS Word is generally used for various purposes by computer users. It also prone to some problems which are regularly faced by Microsoft Word users. When you work on MS Word, you may face any one of these error messages:

• Run-time error
• Subscript out of range
• The file cannot be opened
• Module name cannot be found
• The add-in template is not valid
• Word cannot open this document template
• Cannot display the template add in template is not valid template name
  

These are the symptoms that shows the document is corrupt and needs to repair word document. The reason for encounter these error messages are because an add-in in one of the startup folders is not friendly with the version of the Word installed on your computer. You need to recognize the add-in due to which these error encounters, you need to follow these steps:

1. You have to quit all MS Office applications
2. You need to open the following folder depending on your version of MS Word.

For MS Word 2007:
Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Startup

For MS Word 2003:
Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Startup

3. You need to shift any files that are3 placed on that folder to your computer.
4. Then open the following folder:
Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup

5. Then shift any files located in that folder to your system.
6. Start your Word after completing this process.

You will be able to overcome these error messages after following these easy steps explained above. If you are still facing troubles while starting Word, your Word files may be corrupted or damaged. You will need to use word recovery software to fix the damage. These software uses powerful algorithms to scan corrupted Word files and helps to recover as much data as possible.

Error Messages when Microsoft Word Start

Microsoft Word is generally used for various purposes by computer users. It is also prone to some problems which are regularly faced by Word users. When you begin with Microsoft Word, you may encounter any one of these error messages:

Run-time error
Subscript out of range
Cannot display the template add in template is not valid template name
Word cannot open this document template
Module name cannot be found
The file cannot be opened
The add-in template is not valid
The grounds for facing these error messages are because an add-in in one of the startup folders is not friendly with the version of the Word installed on your computer. You need to recognize the add-in which is causing this behavior, you need to follow these steps:

1. You have to quit all Microsoft Office applications, including Word and Outlook.
2. You need to open the following folder depending on your version of Microsoft Word.

For Microsoft Word 2007:
Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Startup

For Microsoft Word 2003:
Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Startup

3. You need to shift any files that are3 placed on that folder to your computer.
4. Then open the following folder:
Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup

5. Then shift any files located in that folder to your system.
6. Start again Word after completing this process.
You will be able to overcome these error messages after following these easy steps explained above. If you are still facing troubles while starting Word, your Word files may be corrupted or damaged. You will need to use word recovery software to fix the damage.

Word Table Corruption Error While Editing

MS Word allow you to organize data in a way that can be easily read and manipulated. On occasion, you find issues while editing tables in MS Word. One of the prime causes for this behavior to occur is table corruption. Hence, in order to restore lost information, you need to use your recent file backup. But, in case of no backup availability, or invalid state of backup, Word Recovery tools offer a one-hit cure.

Consider a practical example; you are using a complex table in your Microsoft Word document. When you try to edit table, you observe one of the below symptoms:

. Your Word document start flickering
. The document appears to repaginate
. You encounter an error message:

“A table in this document has become corrupted. To recover the contents of the table: select the table and choose Convert Table to Text from the Table menu”

You face these issues if one of the conditions is true:

. You have created the table in earlier version of Microsoft Word
. The table in use is corrupted or damaged

To troubleshoot these problems, you need to follow these steps:

. Try to open the document in earlier version of Microsoft Word and edit it
. If problem persists, you should try these methods for repairing damaged document:

. Try to open the document with ‘Open and Repair’ feature
. Save the document in another file format and then covert it again in MS Word document
. Leaving the last paragraph, copy all the things from damaged document and paste them to a new one
. To prevent further damage, copy the uncorrupted portions of damaged document to a new one
. If problem persists then you should use commercial word repair software. Such Word Recovery utilities recover and restore all document objects and provide interactive interface. Also, because of their read-only design, they maintain data integrity.