Word File Corruption Post Editing In Hex-Editor

A binary file editor (hex-editor) is a program used by computer professionals to edit binary data files, complicated programs, file system structures, and raw disk partitions. The binary data of the file is presented in the hexadecimal values and can be deleted or modified as per your requirement. While these editors can be used to resolve problems, they can also be used by malicious users to corrupt your critical MS Word documents (doc or docx file). In such situations, the data saved in these documents becomes unreadable and the data saved in the documents becomes inaccessible. For accessing MS Word files after their corruption, an ideal way is to restore them from an updated backup. But, if no backup of the document is available, then you need to use an effective third-party Word Repair application.

To illustrate the above case, consider a practical scenario where a malicious user accessed doc file saved on the network and opened it in hex-editor. This person made some changes and saved the changed file on the network. Now, when you attempt to access the document, it displays an error message and does not open. The error message appears every time you try to access that document, leading to inaccessibility of data saved in that document.

Cause:

The root cause for the error message is corruption of Word document. Corruption occurred because the malicious user modified some of the important header values of your Word document.

Resolution:

To get past the above error message and to access Word document:

* Use a valid backup of that document and perform restoration.
* In case backup is deficient or unavailable, then use 'Open and Repair' utility to repair the document.
* If the repair utility falls short in repairing the corrupted document, then use a commercial Word Recovery utility to perform the task.

Such repair applications Repair Word File after they have become corrupted due to any logical crash. These tool ensure that all the objects in the document are repaired safely. The user has the option to save the repaired document at required location.