corrupt word doc

Copper Contributor

Hi, I cannot open a word doc that says it is corrupted. My computer crashed as i was working on it and now it says it has unreadable content. can anyone help me?

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@tmatthews9 

 

If you are running Word under Windows, try opening the document in WordPad, the Windows accessory. You may lose some formatting, because it is a very basic word processor, but WordPad is often able to open damaged Word documents.