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| Thread ID: 46165 | 2004-06-15 09:06:00 | Word document recovery tools | Tom McB (832) | Press F1 |
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| 244813 | 2004-06-15 09:06:00 | Hi. I have been asked to help recover a word 2000 document. Managed to "recover" the text by opening a new document and inserting the old file. I would like to recover the imbedded images as well. Did a search for recovery utilities and found a few commercial ones. Does anybody know of freebies (not try and buy) ? Has anybody purchased or used AWR or DocRepair ? Thanks t |
Tom McB (832) | ||
| 244814 | 2004-06-15 09:52:00 | Did you look for the *.wbk (Word backup) files Tom? They can hang around for months if not deleted and you might even pull back a nearly complete file. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 244815 | 2004-06-15 09:56:00 | This Thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) might help. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 244816 | 2004-06-16 01:44:00 | You might also like to consider opening the corrupted file in Open Office. I recently had a word doc that got corrupted (had some sort of memory leak!), which Word couldn't recover from, but I was able to open in Open Office successfully and extract all the images/text etc. I believe Open Office was on one of the recent PC World CDs if you need to get it. Cheers Dave |
odyssey (4613) | ||
| 244817 | 2004-06-16 01:47:00 | > You might also like to consider opening the corrupted > file in Open Office. I recently had a word doc that > got corrupted (had some sort of memory leak!), which > Word couldn't recover from, but I was able to open in > Open Office successfully and extract all the > images/text etc. > > I believe Open Office was on one of the recent PC > World CDs if you need to get it. > > Cheers > Dave Hey, I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip Dave. |
nzStan (440) | ||
| 244818 | 2004-06-16 09:21:00 | Firstly, many thanks for the responses. The puter gets a lot of use during school days that I did not get the chance to respond straight away. BT, can't find any wbk backups. Turned out that the file was emailed back to school so we were able to get hold of a 24hr old copy. I considered getting the commercial packages for the odd disaster but eventually decided to let it go. I discussed the merits of saving multiple versions of the document along the way (i.e. file v1.doc, file v2.doc, etc). I think the lesson sank in this time. BTW, the document was being edited on old faithful (P233 w98se) across a p2p link with a P4 w2k while another user was on it. May not have anything to do with it at all, but I'm just being cynical. Once again, many thanks for the PF1 support. Best wishes to all. |
Tom McB (832) | ||
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