How to Open Corrupt Microsoft Word 2010 Document

Are you getting an error message “The filename. docx cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents.”? When you try to open a Microsoft Word 2010 document.  At this situation, you are at loosing position or may lost your whole document. If you are disparately searching an effective method to fix this error then you have reached at right place. Here you will find not only one method but a list of methods that will guide you.

How to Start MS Office in Safe Mode?

Microsoft Office offers safe modes that allow users to safely start & use MS office program or families that has encountered some startup error messages. When MS office finds a startup error messages then it will try to fix or isolate the error messages and allow the program to start successfully. There are two types of MS office safe modes:

MS Word 2007: Not showing images

Recently one of my colleague told me that whenever she tried to open her MS Word document containing images, the image does not appear. She tried to open the document on another computer and it just works fine. I did a little search on this issue and came to know that this issue may occurs if some of the Word options are disable and to display images properly, you need to enable them.

How to Improve the Performance of your Word document 2007?

Are you frustrated with the performance of your word document? Is word program taking long time to open your document? These types of problems are very common and most of the MS word users have faced it during their career.

Above described problems can happen due to several reasons like length of word document, embedded true type fonts, embedded objects & graphics, file format, versions & unformatted images but unformatted image is the most possible cause for the problem. Here we will discuss about “How to format & reduce the size of images or photos used in word document?”

Causes which Corrupt MS Word File

MS Word is one of those applications which are extensively used by a layman like student of class 8th as well as a professional content writer. It offers advantageous writing features such as automatic grammar and spell check, option to add images, tables, charts, etc in our document and many more. Despite of these features, it is observed that MS Word file gets corrupt very easily and thus creates devastating situation of inaccessibility of our precious data. Though MS Word provides measures to handle minor corruptions but if your Word file is severely corrupt then you have no other option then to opt for third-party Word repair software. I learnt about this fact after I lost my precious Word file due to its corruption.

Word Document Corruption on a USB Drive

A Microsoft Word document might get corrupt due to system errors, file system issues, network problems, unexpected shutdown and many similar causes. A corrupt Word document might fail to open, show weird characters or give errors while trying to be opened. To cope up with such problems, you need to use your recent backup that could completely restore the entire lost information. But sometimes, when backup proves inefficient to give the required output, you should use word recovery software to repair them.

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 Repair 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.