Recover Lost Documents

A damaged Word document that can be opened can be recovered in a variety of ways and here a few suggestions to recover fully or partially as much of the document as possible.

• Save to another file format eg. Rich Text (.rtf) or Plain Text (.txt) and then perform a file conversion to Word
• Copy the document except for the last paragraph  or if partially damaged the undamaged portions to a new Word document
• Recover the document using MS Word’s File=>Open dialog box, select the document and click the arrow by the Open button and go Open=>Repair
• Recover Text from Any File converter can also be used - File=>Open dialog box choose  “Recover Text from Any File (*.*)”. If Microsoft Word cannot open the document
• Close Microsoft Word, then click Start, Run, type winword /a and press Enter. Try to open the document using this copy of Word.
• Insert the damaged document into a new document. Create a new document, then click on Insert, File, select the damaged document and click Insert.
• Open the file using WordPad, then re-save it to a new file, or copy the contents and paste them into a new Word document.
• Use the Recover Text from Any File converter. In the File, Open dialog box, select “Recover Text from Any File (*.*)” - you need to be running a Windows version of 2002 and above for this to work.

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If you see a message “Powerpoint cannot open the type of file represented by .ppt” then it can mean one of several things:

1.  You password protected the Powerpoint file in XP (2002) but you are trying to open it with an earlier version of Powerpoint - it can’t do it and if you are a Mac user the same applies for versions of Powerpoint before 2004 - in this instance re-open the .ppt file with the XP or 2004+ for Mac and then resave it without password protection; or

2.  The presentation file is corrupted - hope you have a back-up and see if you can recover an earlier version or you can try the following (make a backup copy of your Powerpoint file first and work on that !)

Here you go :-

Running Powerpoint 2003 - select Help=>About Microsft Powerpoint  if SP1 or higher is not showing (should be SP2 now) then get it upgraded ASAP - go to the Windows site and activate Live Updates

For Win XP with SP1 and above check Files=>Open as Read Only

Failing that open a blank Powerpoint template select Insert=>Slides from File  - try the slides individually if it won’t allow you to do a bulk transfer of the whole thing.

Failing that check the temp file - Powerpoint files are always named after a number eg 28.tmp so you don’t get confused with a Word document stored there.

Good luck !

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Office Documents Rescue Professional recovers lost and deleted data from hard drives, compact flash cards, microdrives, smart media cards and usb sticks among several others.

It also supports a wide range of file formats including .doc, .xls, .ppt, .trf and .lit and it is a very effective data and document recovery tool for the whole of the Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel, Publisher and Powerpoint.

What’s nifty about this document recovery solution is that it simply does not matter what caused the document loss to begin with, hard drive crash, accidental delete or formatting of the drive, it will still recover the data.

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Digital MediaRescue Professional recovers files from a range of multimedia storage devices including PDA’s and cell phones.

Files that have been deleted can be recovered whether by an accidental delete or a system failure much the same as on your hard drive with document recovery software, so if you only have a copy on the portable media you can still recover it.

This is shareware so there is a cost but you can download for a trial simply by clicking here.

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