Familiar file extensions, including the .doc Word default, sprouted an "x" at the end, and users who still relied on earlier Office versions discovered they no longer could open files created in ...

A text recovery converter will let you recover corrupt Word files. We have step-by-step instructions to follow.

Click the "Files of Type" drop-down menu and select "Microsoft Office Word" to display only Word documents. Double-click the Word document to open and automatically convert the Word document.