Spliced Word file

I recently tried to fix a Word file, and this is what I learnt.

By the looks of it, the file had been “spliced” with another, autorun.inf. The beginning went:

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[autorun

:jmp8

open=BOOTEX\thumbcache_131.exe

Solution 1

Save the Document to Another File Format, and Then Convert It Back to Word

1. Open file
2. Save as: (in decreasing priority) rtf, html, other text formats, txt
3. Close and reopen

Solution 2

Insert the Document As a File in a New Document

1. In a new document, insert > file

Solution 3

Open the File by Linking to It

1. Create and save a new document with sample text
2. In a second, new document, paste special > paste link > formatted text (rtf)
3. In the second document, edit > links
4. Change source > select broken document

Solution 4

Use the Recover Text from Any File Converter

This one finally worked, but I found that in addition to being corrupted, the file was also unsaved, so there wasn’t much data in it anyway.

1. File > open > change file type to recover text from any file (*.*)

References (with more solutions)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826864
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290946