(OT) S.O.S.!! Recovering a corrupted MSword document!!!
Hi: Sorry, I know this is way out of topic but since there is lot of experienced people here and I have almost no other place to go (forget M$ mailing lists! if there is such thing) I came here... The thing is that I have this very big word document (1.06mb) that when ever I try to open in office or star office ...it crashes the office suite!!! I have tried some tricks to recover it but I wasnt successful... Any ideas?? THANKS!!! Raul Happy New Year!!
* Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés (oxford@campoalto.edu.py) [011231 10:59]:
The thing is that I have this very big word document (1.06mb) that when ever I try to open in office or star office ...it crashes the office suite!!!
strings < very_big.doc > very_big.txt -- -ckm
if you can view it with mc or ztree try editing it with "fte" or "vi" or edit.exe (windows) if you can't view anything legible it's probably lost. On Monday 31 December 2001 11:04 am, you wrote:
Hi:
Sorry, I know this is way out of topic but since there is lot of experienced people here and I have almost no other place to go (forget M$ mailing lists! if there is such thing) I came here...
The thing is that I have this very big word document (1.06mb) that when ever I try to open in office or star office ...it crashes the office suite!!!
I have tried some tricks to recover it but I wasnt successful...
Any ideas?? THANKS!!!
Raul
Happy New Year!!
I just looked at a .doc file with a text reader, and it's a mess. I sure would not want to have to try and edit a 1 MB file like that. (One page would be a tremendous hassle.) You would be well advised to try and get a new copy somehow. Or see if someone has a tool for turning that kind of code back into English--there used to be tools for reading WordStar, way back when. I'd look long and hard on Google. --doug At 11:05 12/31/2001 -0800, phil wrote:
if you can view it with mc or ztree try editing it with "fte" or "vi" or edit.exe (windows)
if you can't view anything legible it's probably lost.
On Monday 31 December 2001 11:04 am, you wrote:
Hi:
Sorry, I know this is way out of topic but since there is lot of experienced people here and I have almost no other place to go (forget M$ mailing lists! if there is such thing) I came here...
The thing is that I have this very big word document (1.06mb) that when ever I try to open in office or star office ...it crashes the office suite!!!
I have tried some tricks to recover it but I wasnt successful...
Any ideas?? THANKS!!!
Raul
Happy New Year!!
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 14:37:28 -0500
Doug McGarrett
I just looked at a .doc file with a text reader, and it's a mess. I sure would not want to have to try and edit a 1 MB file like that. (One page would be a tremendous hassle.) You would be well advised to try and get a new copy somehow. Or see if someone has a tool for turning that kind of code back into English--there used to be tools for reading WordStar, way back when. I'd look long and hard on Google. --doug
Antiword might help? http://antiword.cjb.net/ Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
there's also something called peek that might help. It's a windows based program. http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/peek11.zip Peek v.1.1 [peek11.zip : 17 KBytes] Excellent little file viewer - Shows the contents of any binary file. PEEK is a Shell context menu extension which allows you to extract only the text portion of files. After installation you are provided with 3 different setups called: - Standard - Unicode - Binary Files Installation:Download Peek 1.1 and unzip it.. Right click on the PEEK.INF file and then Install. It is added to your Explorer context menu as a right-click option. obviously you'll loose the text format. and the file will end up in plain ascii. On Monday 31 December 2001 11:37 am, you wrote:
I just looked at a .doc file with a text reader, and it's a mess. I sure would not want to have to try and edit a 1 MB file like that. (One page would be a tremendous hassle.) You would be well advised to try and get a new copy somehow. Or see if someone has a tool for turning that kind of code back into English--there used to be tools for reading WordStar, way back when. I'd look long and hard on Google. --doug
At 11:05 12/31/2001 -0800, phil wrote:
if you can view it with mc or ztree try editing it with "fte" or "vi" or edit.exe (windows)
if you can't view anything legible it's probably lost.
On Monday 31 December 2001 11:04 am, you wrote:
Hi:
Sorry, I know this is way out of topic but since there is lot of experienced people here and I have almost no other place to go (forget M$ mailing lists! if there is such thing) I came here...
The thing is that I have this very big word document (1.06mb) that when ever I try to open in office or star office ...it crashes the office suite!!!
I have tried some tricks to recover it but I wasnt successful...
Any ideas?? THANKS!!!
Raul
Happy New Year!!
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there's also something called peek that might help. It's a windows based program.
http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/peek11.zip
Peek v.1.1 [peek11.zip : 17 KBytes] Excellent little file viewer - Shows the contents of any binary file. PEEK is a Shell context menu extension which allows you to extract only the text portion of files. After installation you are provided with 3 different setups called: - Standard - Unicode - Binary Files Installation:Download Peek 1.1 and unzip it.. Right click on the PEEK.INF file and then Install. It is added to your Explorer context
At 11:58 12/31/2001 -0800, phil wrote: menu
as a right-click option.
obviously you'll loose the text format. and the file will end up in plain ascii. /snip/
replying to my own reply of an hour or so ago, there's a program called mswordview, or maybe now it's renamed, but it's at http://www.wvware.com/ and they say that abiwrite uses it to convert word files. There's a windows (or maybe DOS) program called wd97vwr32.exe at http://www.cipla.com/html/freedownload.htm I haven't tried either of these, but maybe one of them can salvage the file. There's also supposed to be a free download from MS that will let you read, but not edit, .DOC files. It's guaranteed not to run on LINUX :-) good luck --doug
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