DOC is a filename extension for word processing documents created with Microsoft Word. DOC files often contain more text formatting information (as well as scripts and undo information) than some other document file formats, thus making it more complex to recover.

The DOC files created with Microsoft Word differ from version to version and various repair techniques are to be used to fix the corrupted files. Because the DOC file format was a closed specification for many years, inconsistent handling of the format persists, sometimes leading to file corruption, requiring to use advanced repair methods to restore all content of the file.

Starting from Microsoft Word 2007 the DOC format was replaced by the Office Open XML format, though Microsoft Word could still produce DOC files. An Office Open XML file is a ZIP-compatible package containing XML documents and other resources. In order to fully recover files created with Microsoft Word 2007 or later, one would need analyze each paragraph of the corrupted document, fix the .xml file structure, restore all formatting, repair formulas, graphics etc.

Corrupted word documents are files that suddenly become unusable and can't be opened with Microsoft Word. There are several reasons why a word file may have been damaged. In some cases, it is possible to fix and recover the corrupt doc (Word 2003, 2000, 97, 95, 6.0), docx (Word 2007, 2010), rtf file.

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OfficeRecovery Online for Word supports Microsoft Word 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000, 97, 95, 6.0 and Word for Mac. The recovered data is saved into rtf format.

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