Office Repair tools

neathneathneath

can anyone recommend any microsoft (or third party) repair tools / utilities to repair corrupt files

e.g. unable to open powerpoint or word docs as they are corrupt.

(have tried the repair function in Office 2003 / 7 but unable to fix corrupt file)

Megadeth4168

Here are a couple of links found in a quick search. This is intended as a solution to uninstall office and attempt a reinstall.


http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011401771033.aspx
Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
The Remove Hidden Data tool for Office 2003 and Office XP

If it's anything like Office 2000, then the uninstall and repair utilities with the CD will not delete or overwrite certain files that may be causing the issue.

For example, in Word 2000 (I'm not sure about future versions) when people were having issues opening Word, I could usually fix the problem by manually deleting Normal.Dot. The file would recreate itself once Word was launched.

The same would go for Excel, deleting the file Excel.XLB. Sometimes deleting outcmd.dat would help to clear up Outlook issues.

Have you tried opening the documents on another machine? Just curious.

neathneathneath

thanks for the reply.

I'm just referring to say a corrupt powerpoint file - nothing wrong with office.

Have tried same file on several office 2003 computers and also an office 2007 one without success - corrupt file.

Bokeh

Quick search brought up this link as well:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA011168781033.aspx

How to recover a corrupt powerpoint presentation.