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.
via techblissonline
1: Don’t assume that the document is corrupt
2: Make a copy of the document
3: Check your email
4: Run CHKDSK
5: Try exporting the file
6: Extract the raw text
7: Use Word’s text converter
8: Use Open And Repair
9: Use a Vista shadow copy of the document
10: Rebuild the file header
via techrepublic