Discovering you are unable to access an important document because it is corrupt can be distressing, but if it is a Microsoft Works word processor file, you may be able to recover it or at least the ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Some of my files are turning into files I can’t open. I get this message ...

Corrupt Word documents contain errors in their data that prevent Word from opening them correctly. In some cases, Word can repair corrupt files, but others will not work at all. In cases of ...

Chris: I recently started a new job and most of the documents that I work with are Word 2007 files. Nearly all of them open without a hitch, but there are a couple that will not open. I think they are ...