How to fix doc and docx file?

[peralta]

Hi!
I have couple of ms word documents that I cannot open, they somehow got damaged and I get an error when trying to pen these files "file has been corrupted, or cannot be opened". I have tried couple of tools to open this files, but so far no success. I am mainly concern about the content, the formatting can be re-done, do you know of a any tool, or a trick that will open these files?
Thank you in advance!

 

[bazz2004]

The question has come up a few times and the answer is that when they are corrupted that's it. It's very unlikely you will be able to use them again. Always back up anything that's essential.

 

[Cycloid Torus]

Unlikely to work, but you might try...
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-plus-ways-to-recover-a-corrupted-word-document/

 

[JamesandBennie]

I'm afraid not . Backup your important every time.

 

[Jelinek]

Two questions:

(1) Are the files DOC or DOCX?

(2) What version of Word do you have?

 

[peralta]

Two questions:

(1) Are the files DOC or DOCX?

(2) What version of Word do you have?

I have one file that is DOC and other that is DOCX (edited ans saved with the current version of word). I have Word 2013, 2010 and 2003. I have tried opening with different versions and I get the same error message. Thanks!

 

[SNGX1275]

Open with notepad? Notepad will open anything, the question then is how readable is what you opened. Since its already a document with text and the text is what you care about, that should be viewable in notepad. (replace notepad with textedit if you are on OS X)