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1263163 2012-03-05 06:40:00 Documents on a thumb drive were backed up to disk for a neighbhour ... please keep it in a safe place. Neighbour now requires a document but cant find the disk (grrrt). Have done recuva on the thumb drive, have the document but word 2000 wont open it. I did come up with an error mswrd632 ...but that doesnt happen anymore. Is there a kind heart sole who can help with getting this document open. Many thanks to those wonderful helpers Kaycee (14727)
1263164 2012-03-05 06:44:00 Right click, Open with? Maybe wordpad?

LL
lakewoodlady (103)
1263165 2012-03-05 06:59:00 You may have to do this (helpdeskgeek.com). If that's the error you're / they're seeing Speedy Gonzales (78)
1263166 2012-03-05 06:59:00 You never know but it would be worth trying LibreOffice to see if it can open it. mikebartnz (21)
1263167 2012-03-05 07:02:00 Still double dutch with wordpad. Will try LibreOffice Kaycee (14727)
1263168 2012-03-05 07:04:00 Take a COPY of the file, rename it to .Txt extension, then have a look at it with Wordpad.

Any embedded formatting, pictures etc will be garbled, but the original text MIGHT be legible.


Alternative - see if you can get MS Office Application Recovery to deal to the document... or some equivalent App in the Office Tools folder.
Paul.Cov (425)
1263169 2012-03-05 07:53:00 No luck with .Txt ... and no luck with LibreOffice :( Kaycee (14727)
1263170 2012-03-05 09:44:00 I have had success with corrupted files in similar circumstances using the ZTree file viewer. I was able to extract lines of text from a mess of code-like symbols etc that no text editor program could resolve. Problem is, if you are not familiar with ZTree you don't stand a chance of fluking it. If you hit a brick wall, pm me and I'll send an email address to send a copy of the file to, and I'll give it a go. It might be possible to recover enough to reconstruct the original. Can't make it any worse.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
1263171 2012-03-05 18:39:00 Pull everything out of cupboards etc. Find disk. pctek (84)
1263172 2012-03-06 00:41:00 helpdeskgeek.com

Whenever the user clicked the OK button, it would simply pop back up. What was really weird is that if she clicked on the red X button, the document would open just fine! Strange!
Lurking (218)
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