How to repair and recover a corrupted Word temporary document?

My computer crashed while I was working in Word. When I tried to re-open the file, Word tried to access the auto-recovery file but said it was corrupted. I managed to find the *.tmp temporary file for my Word document and viewed it with Notepad. It has a good portion of my text in there, but it also has garbled other stuff. Is there any way to repair and recover the data inside? I’ve tried a couple programs without any luck.

Follow these steps

1.Go to the link provided in the resources list at the bottom of the page. Download the dd2tx.zip distribution of damageddocx2txt.exe, by clicking on the damageddocx2txt link.

2.Unzip the file into the directory of your choice. The dd2txt folder will be created. The freeware damageddocx2txt text extractor is within this folder.

3.Double click on damageddocx2txt.exe. Click the Open choice on the File Menu and choose your damaged docx Word 2007 file.

4.Your text will automatically be extracted from your corrupt 2007 file and will be displayed in the text editor.

5.Then simply click on the File Menu again and choose to Save. Name and save your text file wherever you wish.

6.Double click on the text file wherever it is and Windows Text Editor should open. Hit Ctl + A on your keyboard to select all the text in the file. Then hit Ctl + C on your keyboard to Copy all the text. Open a new Word file and paste in the text.

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