Specialized Corrupt Office Suite File Recovery Freeware and Methods Updated
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* http://www.repairmyword.com/ - Repair My Word is a data recovery
program for Microsoft Word documents. It is designed to recover text
from damaged or corrupt Word files (.doc files) that will not open
normally.
* http://www.wpwriter.com/Articles/Using_WPLOOK/using_wplook.html -
Corel WordPerfect corrupt file recovery app.
* ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/WordPerfect/wpwin/8/wp8rest.exe - Another
Corel corrupt file recovery freeware app.
* http://www.s2services.com/hosted-freeware/lasrlite.zip - With this
program, if a Word file gets corrupt, you can undelete all Word files
and find an earlier temporary version that Windows stored then deleted.
*
http://www.adrc.net/data_recovery_resources/library_topic/office_tips_and_recovery.htm
- extensive MS Office corruption tips.
* http://www.s2services.com/hosted-freeware/kvlot32.exe - will open
Lotus Word Pro files including possibly corrupt ones.
++Spreadsheet File Corruption Recovery Freeware++
*
http://www.adrc.net/data_recovery_resources/library_topic/office_tips_and_recovery.htm
- extensive MS Office corruption tips.
* http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010346561033.aspx -
Overview of Microsoft recommended steps for recovering a file.
* http://www.s2services.com/excel.htm - My steps you can try to recover
an unopenable or corrupt Excel spreadsheet.
*
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.excel.misc/browse_thread/thread/eec325c32d2140be/d2af8c65f03a8876#d2af8c65f03a8876
- Similar to my steps above.
* http://skp.mvps.org/wrd00015.htm - If you are one of those brave
souls who believe in saving only at the end of the job then you are in
deep trouble when Word crashes/hangs. Yet, you may be able to recover
it or at least some part of it."
* http://chicago.sourceforge.net/xlhtml/ - The xlHtml program will take
an Excel 95, or 97 file as input and convert it to highly optimized
html.
* http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/ice/catdoc/ - CatDoc is now accompanied
by xls2csv - program which converts Excel spreadsheet into
comma-separated value file."
*
http://download.microsoft.com/download/excel97win/util/1/win98/en-us/recover.exe
- If you can open the workbook in Microsoft Excel 97, you can use the
Microsoft Excel 97 File Recovery Macro to re-create Excel worksheets,
XLM macro sheets, and module sheets in a new workbook.
* http://www.s2services.com/hosted-freeware/bytefix.zip - "The BYTEFIX
utility is designed to address a situation in which 123 Release 5 for
Windows (123W) is unable to open certain corrupted .WK4 files. Under a
particular set of circumstances, which are unrelated to the operation
of 123W, data files of different types are corrupted when extra bytes
(characters) are appended to the end of the file. 123W is unable to
read a .WK4 file that has been corrupted in this fashion; consequently,
the program generates an "Error Reading File" message. BYTEFIX is
designed specifically for those .WK4 files that have been corrupted by
the additional bytes appended to the end of the file. Important :
BYTEFIX does not correct 123W files which generate the "Error Reading
File" message but have been corrupted by other circumstances (such as
disk-write caching, magnets, incompatible network software and so
forth)."
* http://www.s2services.com/hosted-freeware/backfour.zip - Richard Warr
developed the BackFour WK4 file recovery program back in 1996. The
software is able to overcome most problems encountered with corrupt WK4
files by converting them back to the simpler WK3 format.
* http://www.s2services.com/hosted-freeware/FIXWK4.zip - In January of
1994 reports appeared in the press saying that users of 1-2-3 were
experiencing file problems. Issues like this are not widespread but
when they do occur are most often are not caused by 1-2-3. File
problems can result from magnets, disk write caching, certain network
software, etc. Lotus has tracked these issues and found in a very few
cases 1-2-3 is inadvertently saving files which cause a General
Protection Fault (GPF) when the files are opened. The enclosed utility
(FIXWK4.EXE) can be used to correct problems with files that are
causing GPF's if the problem was caused by this one issue that has been
identified by Lotus. All the data in the file should be intact.
* http://www.s2services.com/hosted-freeware/kvlot32.exe - will open
Lotus 123 files including possibly corrupt ones.
++Presentation Corruption Recovery Freeware++
* http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q193848/ - PowerPoint Presentation
Cloning.
*
http://www.adrc.net/data_recovery_resources/library_topic/office_tips_and_recovery.htm
- extensive MS Office corruption tips.
* http://prdownloads.sf.net/chicago/xlHtml-Win32-040.zip - ppthtml is
not very helpful maybe but still possible to recover something from a
ppt file by converting it to html.
* http://www.s2services.com/hosted-freeware/kvlot32.exe - will open
Lotus Freelance files including possibly corrupt ones.
++Structured Storage File/OLE 2/Doc File Viewers - Take apart files
into their text, images, maybe vba etc.++
* http://www.mitec.cz/systools.htm#SSV - take apart office files into
their components (e.g. - text and images etc.) helpful possibly for
corrupt files.
* http://docfileviewer.wedding-soft.com/ - Very small program that can
help you with your compound files needs.
* http://www.menees.com/index.html - another Doc File viewer.
*
http://users.iafrica.com/d/da/dart/zen/Source/ByLang/Delphi/DocFileUtils/DocFileViewer/df__DocFileViewer.html
- Yet another one.
* http://support.microsoft.com/kb/139545 - a free Microsoft one.
++Office File Viewers - May sometimes open files when native app
cannot++
* http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/HA010449811033.aspx -
various MS Office file viewers. Try opening corrupt files with these.
* http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/ATViewerExe.html - Many formats can
be shown: text, unicode, binary, RTF, images, multimedia, office files.
* http://www.oasys-software.com/product/dm/columbus/ - Columbus will
open many office suite files. Be sure to right click on the files and
choose the Columbus viewer. If you double click on the file in the
Columbus Explorer like tree, it will cause your default app to try to
open the file again.
* ftp://ftp.45.free.net/pub/catdoc/catdoc-0.94.zip - catdoc is program
which reads one or more Microsoft word files and outputs text,
contained inside them to standard output.
* http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html - Antiword displays Word file
from the command prompt.
++Text Extractors - At least get your text back++
* http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/ - The DocMorph Web site allows
users to convert files into PDF, TIFF, text, and synthesized speech.
The downloadable MyMorph software allows users to mass migrate files to
PDF only.
* http://www.ultima-thule.co.uk/ - TextExtract is a small but powerful
program that scans one or more files for text strings, extracts them
and saves them into a separate file. Useful if, say, you have a
corrupted word processor file, or if you just want to see what text, if
any, is inside a file. Configurable extraction. Lovely interface. Very
straightforward to use.
* http://members.fortunecity.com/bigg5/frw/diagn.htm - This allows you
to recover the text from a file if nothing else.
++Misc. Corrupt File Recovery Freeware++
* http://www.pchell.com/ - Everyone has been to PC Hell at one time or
another. It's that place you visit when your personal computer is
driving you insane with problems, glitches, and so on. To try to soothe
the frustration, we'll provide some tips, hints, and troubleshooting
remedies to help you get out of PC Hell. Be warned however, sometimes
there is no exit....
* http://www.securitysoftware.cc/apps.html - This simple program can
be used to ->predictably<- corrupt and then repair a file. I use this
to add an additional layer of security to password protected zip files
and other types of encrypted files.