Instructions

Corrupt Office Suite Text/Data Extracting Service - BETA

Upload modern corrupt office suite files for text or data salvaging.  Despite file corruption, it may be possible to avoid retyping or re-entering your data. 

The file uploader will show progress on the screen.  Currently if you do not have flash properly installed you will not be able to upload.  In that case try to download install Google Chrome which has Flash built into the browser.

Once the file is uploaded and gone to 100%, it may take up to 1 or 2 minutes for the resultant text to be displayed.

Once the text is displayed, hit Ctl-A key combination on your keyboard to select all the text and then Ctl-C to copy it to your clipboard.  Open a new office file of the type you of your corrupt file and hit Ctl-V to paste the text into the new file.

If you are extracting a spreadsheet and you have more than one worksheet, the 2nd and following sheets' data will be in the same first file with the 2nd and subsequent data following the first worksheet's data, with no separator.  For best results copy the data and use "Paste Special." You can view annotated screenshots of the steps involved here.
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