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Recover Word docs after a crash
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Apr 18th 2006 at 5:15PM
Yes, there is a recovery
feature in Office. No, it doesn't always work. Does anything? Luckily, Annoyances Central has a fix for recovering a Word
doc after a crash. In particular this answers the question: what if my file is wonked? A bad enough crash can make
reopening the doc crash Word over and over. So the idea is to fix the file, and reopen it. They have several ways to
find the remnants of your Great American Novel. Ultimately, you may need to just drop into Notepad, opener of all that
is unopenable. Yes, you lose all the formatting, but did you really need bold and italics to
tell your tale? I didn't think so.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Razib Ahmed said 5:43AM on 4-19-2006
Really, a lot of thanks for the useful information. This is a problems that bothers all of us. even if I can recover my document in a notepad, I would not mind at all. It is much better than losing a 100 page document completely.
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bloggaru said 11:39AM on 4-19-2006
oh man, i needed this!
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