WD2000: How to Recover Text from Any File

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SUMMARY

This article describes the "Recover Text from Any File" converter and how to use it to recover damaged documents.


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What Is the "Recover Text from Any File" Converter?

The "Recover Text from Any File" converter allows you to extract the text from any file. The file does not have to be a Word document.

What Will I Lose Using the "Recover Text from Any File" Converter?

Using the "Recover Text from Any File" converter has its limitations. Document formatting is lost, along with anything that is not of a text nature. Graphics, fields, drawing objects, and so on are not converted. However, headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, and field text are retained as simple text.

My Document Is Damaged: How Can I Recover the Information?

Word 2000 provides a converter for recovering the text from any file.

NOTE: When you change the Files of type box to Recover Text from Any File in the Open dialog box (on the File menu, click Open), Word retains this setting and uses it the next time you open a document. To avoid this behavior, reset the Files of type box back to Word Document (*.doc) after you have completed recovering your damaged document.

To Open a Word Document

To use the "Recover Text from Any File" converter, do the following steps:

  1. On the File menu, click Open, and select the document.


  2. In the Files of type box, select Recover Text from Any File, and click Open.


To Open a Non-Word File

To use the "Recover Text from Any File" converter, do the following steps:

  1. On the Tools menu, click Options.


  2. Select the General tab.


  3. Click to select the Confirm conversion at Open check box, and click OK.


  4. On the File menu, click Open.


  5. Select the file you want to recover, and click OK.


  6. In the Convert File dialog box, select Recover Text from Any File, and click OK.


Word will convert and recover any text from the document.

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Keywords          : kbtshoot kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: May 14, 1999