There are a few things you can do to try and recover your lost Word document. If your Word document was on a floppy disk or removable media try running a windows ScanDisk operation on the drive with the media in to recover the Word document. You can do this by right-clicking the drive in windows and selecting ‘properties’ from the drop down menu. Then click the ‘tools’ tab and under ‘error checking’ click ‘check now’. This will initiate the ScanDisk operation hopefully fixing any disk related problems enabling you to recover your word document and open it again within Word. If this does fix your problem and you can open your Word document again immediately save a copy of the Word document to another location as a backup and if possible use a different removable media storage disk/device from then on because the disk you had problems with may be faulty and your problem could re-occur.

How to recover a Word documents password
If you are trying to figure out how to recover a Word document’s password and the file itself is intact then you are in luck because there is a neat little tool called Word Key that can recover a Word document’s password easily. There is a free version of Word Key however it is limited to only retrieving word passwords that are no longer than 2 characters in length. The full version of Word Key recovers all Word document password types and is relatively inexpensive.

Below are some features of Word Key:

• All versions of MS Word are supported (including Word 2003)
• Online Mode offers instant free preview of encrypted document content. The software connects to www.Decryptum.com server to generate free preview or decrypt files.
• Recovers all types of passwords
• Instantly recovers all types of Word 95/7.0, 6.0, 2.0 passwords: open, form and document protection, write reservation passwords
• Instantly recovers Word 2003/2002/2000/97 write reservation, form and document protection passwords
• Recovers Word 2003/2002/2000/97 open passwords using a combination of Brute-Force, Xieveâ„¢ or Dictionary attacks
• Additional user dictionaries support, case changes, multiple mistypes and other modifications for each dictionary word
• Program automatically saves password search state and can resume after a stop or a crash
• Patterns can be used to minimize search time if any part of the password is known
• Non-English characters in passwords are supported
• Full install/uninstall support

Click here to visit the Word Key website and read more about how this great tool can recover forgotten Word document passwords.

How to recover a corrupt Word document
If you do know the password for your Word document and instead are needing to know how to recover a damaged Word document then there is also a handy tool available that should be able to help you out. This great little application is cryptically named ‘Recovery For Word’(!). Recovery for Word is data recovery software for corrupted Word document (.doc files). This makers claim that Recovery for Word is the most advanced document data recovery program available today. Recovery for Word even integrates in to Microsoft Word’s menu system providing you with an easy and quick access ‘Recover’ menu option.

Here is a quick list of some of the features of Recovery for Word:

• Supports all modern file versions, including Word 2003, 2002, 2000, 97, 95 and 6.0
• Basic support for Word for Macintosh files
• Supports RTF (rich text format)
• Recovers text and formatting
• Recovers tables
• Recovers bulleted lists
• Recovers embedded images (images are placed at the end of recovered document)
• Recovers charts and drawings
• Restores headers and footnotes
• Recovers fields, including URLs
• Recovers OLE objects
• Restores formatting applied by styles, recovers headers and footers, fields and bookmarks
• Recovers password-protected files if the password is known (Word 2003, 2002, 2000 and 97 files only)
• Full install/uninstall support

Click here to get the free demo, download the full version and learn more about how Recovery for Word can help you with how to recover Word a document you’ve lost.

How to recover a deleted Word document
If you have simply deleted your Word document and emptied your PC’s recycle bin so that you are unable to recover your Word document yourself, you are in luck because there is a 100% free Word Recovery software utility program geared towards this exact problem. This Word document undelete recovery utility is called ‘FreeUndelete’ and can in fact be used to recover any files you want to get back that you have deleted beyond normal recovery means via your computers recycle bin. Click here to visit the website and get your free copy of FreeUndelete so you can start recovering deleted Word documents with ease!