A corrupt Word document can mean potential disaster especially in a business environment. But there are other situations where an unreadable Word document can cause lots of problems for the owner of the file. One possible option to recover the text information of the Word document is to open it in a text editor like Notepad. This however does not work for the new Microsoft Office formats that Microsoft introduced in the 2007 release of the popular Office suite.
The remaining option is a file recovery software to recover the text. Damaged docx2txt is one of those programs. The recovery application can be downloaded from the developer’s website. The website is offering an online recovery option as well but most users will probably prefer the offline recovery solution especially when privacy is an issue.
The free portable program will launch a new command window which in turn will load the application’s interface. There are only three controls offered by the program. The user can load corrupt Word documents if they are available in the docx format from the file menu. The recovery program tries to recover the text of the Word document loaded by the user. The contents recovered are instantly displayed in the program’s interface from where they can be copied and pasted or saved from the File menu.
The recovery software is limited to docx documents which is somewhat disappointing but it works nicely for corrupted docx documents. The program can be downloaded from the developer’s website. It is compatible with most Windows operating systems and requires the Microsoft .net Framework 2.
Update: The website is no longer available. You can try Microsoft’s official guides on how to recover data from corrupt or no longer opening Word documents. The guides are available on this web page.
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