How to Achieve Word Document Recovery on Mac

We use Word documents very often in our daily life. Lucky for us, Microsoft Word is available for Macs as well as for Windows computers.Unfortunately we may come across some frustrating situations while editing Word. The power is suddenly off while you are editing the Word document; one important Word document is freezing when you open it; the Word is corrupted for unknown reason. When encountering the above problems, we may need Mac Word Recovery.

Well, different disasters need different treatments. In order to recover your Word files effectively, it’s better to analyze the problems and reasons. The followings are some main problems we may encounter.

Common Word problems that we may meet

1.  Unsaved Word or changes of the Word that you are editing for the below reasons

•     »  Sudden power off
•     »  Errors force the Word to close automatically
•     »  Improper operation such as forgetting to save the Word or the changes

2.  When you open a Microsoft Word for Mac document, Word for Mac may stop responding. Additionally, you may have to use the Force Quit command to quit Word for Mac.

3.  After you open a Microsoft Word, find it looks like gibberish. The Word got damaged.

4.  Word document gets infected by virus

5.  Lose Word document for other reasons both system errors and human errors

4 Ways to Achieve Word Document Recovery

  1.  Recover unsaved Word document

Use Auto Recovery copy after you restart Word or the Mac. This is a way to recover unsaved Word document, up to the point of Word’s last automatic save. The steps like this: Enter “Auto Recovery”→ Locate all the files that start with the words “Auto Recovery save of” and select the file you want from the list of files→Click on the file and drag it out of the search window, close the Finder Window→Double-click the file to launch and open it in Microsoft Word for Mac → Save it.

  2.  Recover deleted Word document

Microsoft currently does not provide utilities for Word file recovery Mac that can recover Word documents have been deleted, or emptied from the trash bin, and formatted. However, the Mac bought after Nov, 2007 has a backup utility- Time Machine. It can backup your files every hour. So you can recover your deleted Word document if the backup is available. If you still cannot recover your Word doc with the above methods, you can use some third-party utilities- Mac file recovery software. The Mac Word recovery software available on the Internet such as uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac can recover deleted, formatted, lost and inaccessible Word doc from Mac, USB drive, external drive and other storage media.

  3.  Recover corrupted Word document

The method to recover corrupted Word document depends on the type and severity of the corruption and the type of behavior that is exhibited. Although many of these methods succeed regularly, not every corrupted document can be recovered.

For the Word document that can be opened in Word for Mac

If you can open the Word document in Word for Mac, use one of the following methods.

•   Method 1:  Convert the Word document to another Format
•   Method 2:  Copy everything except the last paragraph mark to a new document
•   Method 3:  Copy the undamaged parts of the File to a New File

For the Word doc that cannot be opened in Word for Mac

If you cannot open the file in Word for Mac, use one of the following methods as appropriate.

•   Method 1:  Insert the file into a blank document
•   Method 2:  Use the paste link command to open the document with a Link
•   Method 3:  Open the file by using “Recover Text from Any File”
•   Method 4:  Open As Copy

More info at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285393

  4.  Recover Word doc after Microsoft stops responding

After Microsoft Word for Mac stops responding or after you use the Force Quit command to end a Word for Mac session, you may only recover Word doc when you restart the program. Additionally, the documents that you recover do not contain the changes or additions that you made in your last Word for Mac session.