Note: for this particular Q&A they kindly sent me a copy of their original Word document so I could try to recover it. Odd, eh? Still, let’s poke around and see what we can do.
Turns out that corrupted Word files are so common that the Microsoft Office suite actually includes a recovery and repair program as part of the suite.Ĭuriously, though, it’s pretty hard to find and if you search for ‘recovery’ in the Word help system there are zero matches, even though it offers a recovery feature. Still, the real question is whether there are versions of the file and whether you have autosave or version tracking enabled on your copy of Microsoft Word. But maybe we can rummage in the file and find some of it, however, so not all is lost. Odds are that you cannot recover the text that you’ve lost.
