How to Recover Corrupt or Damaged Microsoft Office Word (.doc) and Excel (.xls) files for free

Most of us work on Microsoft Word documents, be it in office or at home. Sometimes we are not able to open the word documents which we saved or received from friends or colleagues few days back. It throws an error message when we try to open the word document.

Some common error messages which are-

• The document name or path is not valid. Try these suggestions. Check the file permissions for the document or drive. Use the File Open dialog box to locate the document.
• Word cannot open the document.
• Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges.

The word document contains important information that is needed crucially and is not stored anywhere else. What should be done? Well, there are many data recovery tools that are available on internet but you need to pay few dollars before you repair your file. But, is there any solution that is free and can repair my file? The answer is ‘Yes’.

Repair My Word is a data recovery tool for Microsoft Word documents. It recovers the text easily from damaged or corrupt Word files (.doc files). The recovered text can then be saved as a separate Microsoft Word document. The tool can repair Microsoft Word 6.0, Word 95, 97, 2000, XP, and 2003 for Windows.

How to use “Repair My Word” to repair Word Documents?

1. Download Repair My Word.
2. Click ‘Repair/Open’ to open the corrupt Word document.
3. The recoverable text will be visible in the preview window. Click ‘Save’ to save the file as a RTF file. If you select more than one file, the program will automatically save the files in a batch.

Similarly, you can repair the Microsoft Excel file also.

1. Visit Repair My Excel and download “RepairMyExcel-Setup.exe” to your computer.
2. Run “RepairMyExcel-Setup.exe” and follow the on screen installation instructions.
3. Once installed, open and preview the damaged Excel file. You need to Purchase an activation key to save an error free copy of the file.

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