Wednesday, February 13, 2008

WD2000: ErrMsg: "The file appears to be corrupted"

While using Microsoft Word and trying to open a Word file you may get the following error message:

WD2000: ErrMsg: "The file appears to be corrupted”

It means that the file you are trying to open has been corrupted and will not open. To resolve this problem you can try the following things.

  1. can close and reopen the file. It can sometimes help you open the file.
  2. can also try to restart your computer after some time.
  3. file you are trying to open has been corrupted due to data corruption. You can try various methods to open a file. The method utilized also depends on the severity of corruption of the given file.

These steps may be helpful in helping you get access to the desired file. If you are still not able to access the Word file it can be an instance of software malfunction, accidental file deletion, and virus attack or system problem. To recover your inaccessible and corrupted Word files you will need the help of Word Recovery software.

The software will help you in recovering and repairing corrupted Word files. It is an advanced document-repair program that restores damaged Word files after instances of a virus attack, unexpected system shutdown, media read error or when you are unable to open the Word file. This software utilizes powerful algorithms that provide a complete and thorough scan of Word files to recover as much data as possible. An innovative feature of this software is that it never deletes or modifies original data and severely damaged Word files can be repaired and restored.

This Word Repair software also recovers tables, bulleted lists, embedded images, charts, drawings and restores headers and footnotes. Additionally, it provides filtered and raw text review and supports RTF (rich text format). Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery is an ideal solution to all your Word file corruption related problems.