is there a way to recover corrupted word documents?

Question

is there a free software that could do it?

Answer 1

Yes sure, go to www.download.com, write Word recovery, and see the results, I used one of them once and it solved my problem, but unforutnately I can't remeber the name, and don't believe the one that says System Restore, because all it can do is restore setting and softwares, not documents??!

Answer 2

If you have autorecovery on you might have luck - sometimes.
In Word:
Tools
Options
Save
click in the box to set autorecovery for the amount of time you want - I have mine set to 15 minutes.
Most of the time when this occurs to me, I get a message that the system was able to recover the file and do I want it restored.

You can also set Word to create automatic backups of your files. This way, if you lose a file, you can open the backup and save it to a new name (you cannot edit it).

These are the only two ways I have found so far to recover corrupted files.

However, occasionally, and I don't know why, I am working along and get the "Microsoft detected an error and has to shut down" yada yada. With autorecovery set to on, and automatic backups selected in Word, I still lost 2 hours of work just yesterday.

This link will give you a list of suggested solutions. I think we both may find an answer here. I'm on my way to work and cannot read it now. Good luck.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-fp&p=recover%20corrupt%20documents

Answer 3

If they are still on your system, you can do a system restore.

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