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Word 2007 Recover Text from Any File
Hi, I have been experimenting with Word 2007's "Recover Text from Any File"
feature and so far all I get is gibberish. No text is recovered from the file whatsoever. I also don't get any lists of styles or anything at the end like I did in Word 2003. The files I am testing this on are not corrupt in any way. I just recently switched from Word 2003 to Word 2007 and I'm just exploring the program trying to see whats different and whats still the same. Has anyone else experienced this in Word 2007? Is there an option or a setting somewhere I have to enable to get this feature to work right? |
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Word 2007 Recover Text from Any File
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:39:01 -0700, Dale wrote:
Hi, I have been experimenting with Word 2007's "Recover Text from Any File" feature and so far all I get is gibberish. No text is recovered from the file whatsoever. I also don't get any lists of styles or anything at the end like I did in Word 2003. The files I am testing this on are not corrupt in any way. I just recently switched from Word 2003 to Word 2007 and I'm just exploring the program trying to see what’s different and what’s still the same. Has anyone else experienced this in Word 2007? Is there an option or a setting somewhere I have to enable to get this feature to work right? This feature works as before when the file you open is a Word 97-2003 format document. It won't work with a Word 2007 format (*.docx) document because that format is really a zip file that contains multiple *.xml and other files in subfolders. What you're seeing in the Recover Text result is just the compressed stuff. Rename a copy of *.docx file to a .zip extension and open it, and extract the file word\wordDocument.xml from it. You'll find your text in there, surrounded by xml tags. The styles will be in the file word\styles.xml. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Word 2007 Recover Text from Any File
Hi, Jay, thanks for the information. I tried what you suggested and it
worked just as you described. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:39:01 -0700, Dale wrote: Hi, I have been experimenting with Word 2007's "Recover Text from Any File" feature and so far all I get is gibberish. No text is recovered from the file whatsoever. I also don't get any lists of styles or anything at the end like I did in Word 2003. The files I am testing this on are not corrupt in any way. I just recently switched from Word 2003 to Word 2007 and I'm just exploring the program trying to see whats different and whats still the same. Has anyone else experienced this in Word 2007? Is there an option or a setting somewhere I have to enable to get this feature to work right? This feature works as before when the file you open is a Word 97-2003 format document. It won't work with a Word 2007 format (*.docx) document because that format is really a zip file that contains multiple *.xml and other files in subfolders. What you're seeing in the Recover Text result is just the compressed stuff. Rename a copy of *.docx file to a .zip extension and open it, and extract the file word\wordDocument.xml from it. You'll find your text in there, surrounded by xml tags. The styles will be in the file word\styles.xml. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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