When a Word document becomes unreadable for some reason, it is most likely damaged. However, this does not mean that the information is lost, and you can say goodbye to it. There are ways to help you recover a damaged file.
Method for recovering a damaged file # 1
To restore a Word document, you need to go to the "File" menu and select the "Open" command. After that, a new dialog box should open, in it you will need to find and select the damaged file. Then you should click on the "Open" button and restore the document. It so happens that when you open a file it contains Cyrillic, in this case, a dialog box called "File Conversion" should appear. Here you will need to select the encoding in which you want to restore the file. In some cases, you don't even need to change anything, since by default the program will independently determine the required encoding. It is important to remember that in some cases the document remains unreadable, which means that nothing can be done. If there are no Russian keyboard symbols in the file, then the "Show corrections" dialog box will appear in front of the user, in which a list of the corrections made will be visible. You can go through this list and see what is fixed there.
Method for recovering a damaged file # 2
You can choose a different method to recover the file. To do this, go to the "File" menu and select the "Open" command. After these actions, a dialog box will appear, in it you need to find and select the damaged file. You can also select its type below, but if the default is suitable, then nothing needs to be changed, the user will only need to click the "Open" button. After this operation, the document will be restored and opened. However, there is a possibility that it will open in a different state than expected, but at least the text will be readable.
Method for recovering a damaged file # 3
If the previous 2 methods did not give results, then you should use the free Recuva program, which can be found on the net. It allows you to recover any type of files. After installing it, you should run it, select the damaged document in the wizard and click "Next". Depending on where the file is located, you need to select its location. When this is unknown, you should select the item "Unknown for sure" and click "Next". The program will search for possible documents and repair the damaged file.
If this program did not help, and it is extremely important to restore the document, you should install the paid program Word Recovery Toolbox. It helps even in difficult cases and is inexpensive. For this reason, you should take care of purchasing it in advance, especially if this problem occurs quite often.
