How to Open Damaged Word Document
Sometimes you may get a message that file is corrupted, whereas other times Word would simply say that it cannot open the word file. It means your word document file is get corrupted. It is not necessary that in every corruption scenario you are unable to open your document. So it depends on corruption level. There are many ways to repair corrupt documents but when document is not opening then the steps are different ones: Solution 1: Open the damaged document in draft mode without updating links Step 1: Configure Word First Start Word. View tab> Draft ( the Document Views group) In Word 2007> Microsoft Office Button> Options . In Word 2010> File Menu> Options . Display document content section> Draft font and Picture placeholders check boxes (under Advanced options). General section> clear the Update automatic links> OK . Step 2: Open the damaged document After that Start Word. In Word 2007>