Is there any hope? Completed with thanks

[Evie]

Hi All

My daughter has just finished one of her assignments 1,600 words and her computer went off. She loaded up again and on Microsoft Office Word it said choose document you want to save, which she did. However when she went to open it is says, Word is unable to read this document it may be corrupt. She has tried to recover it, it was saved as a rtf, and it has appeared as what looks like to me, code. Is there any way she can change this coded document into the correct words. Looking through it there is the odd word that she has used in the original document. Here is an example of the document recovered.

{\rtf1\adeflang1025\ansi\ansicpg1252\uc1\adeff31507\deff0\stshfdbch0\stshfloch31506\stshfhich31506\stshfbi31506\deflang2057\deflangfe2057\themelang2057\themelangfe0\themelangcs0{\fonttbl{\f0\fbidi \froman\fcharset0\fprq2{\*\panose 02020603050405020304}Times New Roman;}{\f1\fbidi \fswiss\fcharset0\fprq2{\*\panose 020b0604020202020204}Arial;}

Is it possible to change this into plain text at all.

Many thanks

evie

[dawnsh]

Hi Evie,

My hubby suggests

load it in to WORDPAD (most windows versions have that)

Once there you could copy and paste it back into word.

Though rtf files should load into word fine in the first place .. so the actual rtf file could be corrupted...

Try it .. Good Luck

Dawn

[Evie]

Hi Dawn

I have copied it into Word Pad from Microsoft Works 2007, but it still looks the same? Have I not done something I should have?

evie

[dawnsh]

OK Copying into it is not what hubby meant.

Do this...

1) Load up Word Pad
2) Go to them menu option file, then load
3) locate the rtf file that WORD created (It will probably be where the original WORD document was)
4) You should now see it correctly in Word Pad
5) NOW you can copy that and paste it into word.

Dawn

[Evie]

Oh dear Dawn I am feeling very stupid here.

I opened word pad
then went to the file in my documents
chose the document then chose open with word pad
it loaded onto word pad
but still looks the same

evie

[dawnsh]

Evie,

You are not stupid, but yes these things are VERY frustrating.

Hubby does not know what else to suggest. If the PC does just stop in the middle of producing a document then it can, as seems to be the case here, cause that document to become corrupted.

I am VERY sorry.

Hubby is suggesting that you ensure that  you do a save at least every 15 minutes, or better still, set up WORD to atomatically save for you.

Dawn

[tkgafs]

Evie,

I have sent you a PM

email the doc to me and I'll try to recover it

Tkgafs

[Evie]

Hi Dawn

Thank you and your hubby so much for your suggestions. The annoying thing is she did save it as she went along but then clicked on the one word said it have saved and recovered, which appears on the left of the screen on the document.

Hi Tkgafs

Thank you for your very kind offer, I have sent you the document via e mail.

evie

[Ancientshadows]

Hi

Firstly, Make a copy of the file saved.
(Open the folder (in which the file was saved) in Windows Explorer (Not Internet Explorer IE).
right click the file, select copy
point to a blank area on the screen, select paste)
Rename the copy so that you can work on the copy, if necessary.)

Secondly, Open Word
Select file, open, (do you see anything resembling your doc?)
select/open it if you do
Word has a recovery process............

Thirdly, pm me with your email address, so that you can send the doc from "firstly" to me or anyone else who wants to try a recovery.

Fourthly, please do not tell us that the doc has to be submitted by next Friday
I've already got 2 laptops to investigate ............from !!!!!daughters!!!!!

Fifth, anyone reading this whose off-spring are submitting work next year,
please tell them "@&$£%&()(!£@:!!!"
Translated means "do the work early AND take regular copies!"

If memory serves me, Office  does keep working copies in the C:\Temp folder in a subfolder name escapes me. Have a look in there.

A.S