Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Some of my files are turning into files I can’t open. I get this message ...

Follow these suggestions to try and repair a corrupt Word file to an extent. You can apply these if there is a layout issue, a Word document stuck on opening ...

Discovering you are unable to access an important document because it is corrupt can be distressing, but if it is a Microsoft Works word processor file, you may be able to recover it or at least the ...

Few computer experiences are worse than having a Word document blow up on you. But before you resign yourself to losing the document contents, check out these techniques for salvaging your text.

The Office Client support team at Microsoft Japan reported a strange behavior where a text file starting with 'uda' would prompt for a converter when opened in Microsoft Word, so I decided to try ...