MS Word protected document

[Maceleven]

I had a document created in Word2003 on a memory stick. Somehow it got deleted. I was able to recover it before stick used for anything else. It seems to be correct date and size.

File was password protected (tools / options / security). When I try to open recovered version with Word or by clicking on name in Explorer, I am asked to convert file from encoded text. Result is pages of symbols that are meaningless.

System runs Windows XP

 

[macropod]

In all likelihood, the recovered file is corrupted as a result of the USB stick being removed unsafely or because the recovery process didn't identify the correct file and/or the sectors it occupied.

Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[cmeagan656]

Try opening the recovered document in OpenOffice or OpenLibre.

Hope this helps.

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