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Savvy Corrupt DOCX Recovery, automatically recovers corrupt docx files. The program automatically uses four different progressively more basic algorithms until the final method hopes only to recover text, no formatting. Docx files are in reality zipped collections of mainly concentrated in the document.xml file. If it is partially corrupt, for instance ending with inappropriate XML tags, Word will often not open the docx. Savvy Word Recovery will remove or reorder the corrupt xml from the document.xml, automatically add the correct ending tags if needed and try to open the resulting docx document with the possibly truncated text. If other xml files such as the styles.xml file are corrupt, Word will also sometimes also refuse to open the file. Savvy Corrupt DOCX Recovery knows to fix these ancillary to the main document.xml files as well. Afterwords, Word will often then be able to open the docx file. Finally the program also has a shortcut to the effective commercial program WordFix, made by the corrupt file recovery company with which I have the best affiliate relationship. WordFix and this program differs from Corrupt MS Office Extractor and Corrupt Office Salvager from below in that they are sometimes able to recover formatting as well as the text. I also do manual recoveries for $22 only if I succeed to your satisfaction.

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Savvy Corrupt DOCX Word Recovery

Savvy Family of Corrupt File Recovery

Fast Data/Text Recovery and Formatting

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S2 Recovery Tools for Microsoft PowerPoint

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Microsoft has some recommended methods for recovering from PowerPoint presentation corruption here, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/recover-a-corrupt-powerpoint-file-HA001116878.aspx. S2 Recovery Tools for Microsoft PowerPoint provides easy access to most of these, allowing them to be engaged with pushes of buttons. The program also adds four of its own independent methods. These independent methods include two text, slide and format recovering methods for PPTX files which repair all the salvageable underlying XML subfiles as well as the higher level conventional zip structure of these presentations. The program also has links to three major commercial solutions. One of these is a web service provided by Recoveronix', Online File Repair. With the provided coupon code, until Nov. 1, 2014, the service is free, a $39 value.

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S2 Recovery Tools for Microsoft Excel

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Microsoft recommends several methods for recovering Excel data from corrupt spreadsheets here(for Excel 2007 - 2013) here (for Excel 2007 - 2013). Excel Recovery makes it easy to follow these recommendations for saving and reopening your file in the SYLK and HTML formats; opening the corrupt workbook with calculations to manual or in safe mode; opening in the Excel Viewer or WordPad; using the chart data recovery macro; open and repair or open and extract data modes; and using the external references method among others. The application adds two methods of its own for data extraction and one for XLSX zip repair using included command line apps. Additionally it has its own native previous file version recovery tool which works in any version of Vista - Windows 8. It also features a temporary file searcher which looks for typical Excel temporary files that might be created that might contain your data. This program differs from Corrupt Office Salvager, Corrupt Office Extractor and Corrupt XLSX Salvager in that it addition to the methods those program use Excel Recovery invokes methods that rely on Excel itself, the Excel Viewer or WordPad. Also Excel Recovery using Excel to do its recovery work, should allow a greater chance of recovering formatting. It should be noted the Excel methods often don't work however this is the app to try to get all of my Excel tricks in one easy to use app. The software has been updated with more features and a link to the effective commercial ExcelFix. Description:

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S2 Recovery Tools for Microsoft Word

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Microsoft officially recommends a number of methods for recovering corrupt Word files that won't open. This software provides buttons to easily invoke these as well as providing 5 independent methods for recovering and opening corrupt Microsoft Word old format doc and the new format docx documents. Additionally the program provides links to two pieces of known freeware for Word recovery (not coded by the author), a currently free service (until Nov. 1, 2014) and an affiliate (of the author's) commercial solution. Also it has its own native previous file version recovery tool which works in any version of Windows, Vista-Windows 8. Another feature is a preloaded search interface for finding temporary, deleted and lost versions of corrupt files. Future plans are to implement Microsoft's instructions for recovering corrupt Word files that will open. This program was formerly known as Word Recovery and more recently S2 Services Word Recovery. Description:

Older Programs - The Text Extractor Family

Extract Text, Data and Media from Corrupt Microsoft Office Files

Older Programs - The Salvager Family

Quick, No Frills Text/Data Extraction from Microsoft and Open Office Files

- Will Sometimes Recover Formatting from Open Office Only -

Tools for Corrupt Microsoft File Recovery Family

Microsoftâ€™s Suggested Methods Made Easy Plus the Salvager Series

Text/Data Extraction and Savvy Recoveryâ€™s Format Recovery

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Savvy Repair for Microsoft Office

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DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files are collections of conventionally zipped mostly XML sub-files. This program first attempts repair any zip based corruption. From there it engages in four different algorithmic attempts at repair or recovery. With the first method using validation, the location of the first XML error is sought. At that point the sub-files are truncated and repaired. The second method works the same way except the XML validation is more lax. With the third, the strict XML validation is returned to and corrupt XML sub-files are truncated and repaired as before however, missing XML sub-files are brought in from blank full healthy docx, xlsx or pptx of the respective correct extension. The fourth method uses SilverCoder's DocToText to salvage text or data after which the file is opened as an old style MS Office 97 - 2003 format file including the naked recovered text or data. See my other projects here on Sourceforge for other ways to recover corrupt MS and Open Office files. Description:

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CMD Corrupt OfficeOpen2txt (No Delphi source is available although may be part of the Sourceforge project of Corrupt Extractor for Microsoft Office)

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: Perfect for online scripts and services needing text or data extraction from both corrupt or healthy docx, xlsx or pptx files. Coded by Ccy, author of HaHa Zip and using Delphi Zip, CMD Corrupt OfficeOpen2Txt will often recover text from corrupt "Office Open XML" format files where the respective Microsoft Office 2007, 2010 or 2013 programs cannot salvage the text or data. Office Open format files are zipped collections of XML files. There are two kinds of corruption of these types of files, zip structure corruption and XML corruption. This program deals with both. The unzipping module used in Office 2007 - 2013, is more finicky than DelphiZip module used by CMD Corrupt OfficeOpen2Txt. Thus the collection of files making up the docx, xlsx or pptx file can be extracted as raw material for data/text extraction in the programs 2nd stage. MS Office doesn't even get this far sometimes. In regards to XML corruption, the format is by design a very unforgiving medium for file damage. From the errors returned from attempts at salvaging the text from Office 2007 - 2013 it appears Microsoft is using a fairly standard interpreter of XML even when encountering corruption. CMD Corrupt OfficeOpen2Txt on the other hand does not get hung up by so call XML issues of "well formedness".

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Corrupt PPTX Salvager

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: Corrupt PPTX Salvager is based on Pptx to Text converter by Sopan Shewale. This projects differs from Sopan's project because it starts with a zip repair step using the -FF repair command with InfoZip's zip.exe open source command line app and it uses a different unzipper. Corrupt PPTX Salvager uses 7zip, an unzipper that's relatively more impervious to zip corruption than PowerPoint's built in one seems to be. PPTX files seem to have zip corruption as their biggest cause of not opening. 7zip is able to extract the xml slide files from the pptx where PowerPoint 2007, 2010 and 2013 sometimes fail to deal with corruption. Furthermore Sopan designed Pptx to Text and PPTX Salvager uses regular expressions to extract the text from the XML slide files rather than the stricter XML reading routines that PowerPoint appears to be using. So sometimes when PowerPoint signals an unreadable XML error, this programs still extract useful text. If the program fails, try Recoveronix' Online File Repair service. It's free until 11/01/2025 with coupon code "S2SERVICES".

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Corrupt Open Office Recovery

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: This program uses the same methods as Corrupt Office Salvager for recovering Open Office text and format. It will possibly recover some formatting for Open Office Files as by doing surgery on the styles.xml file. If that doesn't work it uses SilverCoder's DocToText to try to recover the text. If the program fails, try the Recoveronix' Online File Repair Service. It's free until 11/01/2025 with coupon code "S2SERVICES"!

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Corrupt Office Salvager

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This program will extract the text even from damaged or corrupted Microsoft Office and Open Office files 2.X and 3.X files with the extensions .doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, ods and odp as well as possibly the template and macro variants of these extensions such as dot, xlt and pps if they are changed to the correct corresponding extensions mentioned. It may succeed at doing so where MS Office Open Office itself fails to salvage text. It can also attempt to recover formatting in the form of a full Open Office file with a regular, odt, ods or odp extension. At this time unfortunately there is no facility for recovering anything but basic formatting for MS Office files through the previously mentioned text extractions, although there are other programs on this page that will. This program can be used as a viewer of text within healthy MS Office and Open Office files without having MS Office or Open Office installed. The text extraction is accomplished with the use of the command line application, SILVERCODERS DocToText. The program also uses command line tools from CMD Corrupt OfficeOpen2txt, The Chicago and the Apache Tika Projects to extract data and text from MS Office version 97 - 2013 format files. The reconstructed version of the Open Office file is accomplished by unzipping the Open Office file with the somewhat zip corruption immune 7zip unzipper. Once unzipped, the manifest/manifest.xml file is replaced with a greatly simplified version as described here: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=57600. If this application doesn't work for Open Office files, there are other things worth trying as summarized here: http://s2services.com/open_office.htm. If it doesn't work for MS Word files, try here: http://s2services.com/word_repair.htm. If it doesn't work for Excel files look at other alternative steps here: http://s2services.com/excel.htm. If this and all the other relevant programs on this list don't work or you need format recovery, try Recoveronix' Online File Repair. Use the coupon code "S2SERVICES" for free recovery now until Nov. 1, 2014

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Starting with Vista, Windows allows the recovering of previous versions of files without a dedicated backup. These previous versions are stored whenever a Restore Point is made by the system or manually made by the user from the System Protection tab of the System App in the Control Panel. These previous versions can be recovered in Vista and Windows 7 by merely right clicking the target file and choosing "Restore previous versions." This feature is unavailable in Vista Home Home versions and all Windows 8, hence the need for this program. Previous Version File Recoverer works with the other versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 too, so if you find it easier to use then right clicking on files in Explorer then by all means do so. Note, Previous Version File Recoverer rebuilds the index each time you invoke it which is time consuming. Windows however may also doing the same thing with its feature as the two apps take similar amount of time to work. The program may even work with certain versions of XP when on business networks where previous version recovery is available through a 2003 or later Microsoft Server installation. A similar program to this one is Shadow Explorer: http://www.shadowexplorer.com/. You might find that program better because it exposes previous versions of files in an Explorer-like interface, however Shadow Explorer may also be more work because you must look through each restore points file tree to see if the point's version of your file is the one you want. Previous Version Recoverer however does the work for you and simply presents you with a list of previous versions that are different for your corrupt one. Previous Version Recoverer looks at a previous version's size and date saved to determine if the version is truly different. In the end using Shadow Explorer may be more time consuming then using Previous Version Recoverer.

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Corrupt Extractor for Microsoft Office 2007 - 2013