Recovering a Word .tmp file

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Hi,

Does anybody know any way to open a ~XXXXXXX.tmp Word document.

Regards

Mike

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The probability that you can’t do anything useful with it is high, but you can try the following:
– In Word, select File | Open…
– In the Files of type dropdown at the bottom of the dialog, select “Recover text from any file (*.*)”.
– Navigate to the .tmp file and open it.
– You may be able to recover some or all of the text in the file; all formatting will be lost however.

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The probability that you can’t do anything useful with it is high, but you can try the following:
– In Word, select File | Open…
– In the Files of type dropdown at the bottom of the dialog, select “Recover text from any file (*.*)”.
– Navigate to the .tmp file and open it.
– You may be able to recover some or all of the text in the file; all formatting will be lost however.

Hi Hans,

I tried that but it just gives a Word Document Corrupt message and does nothing

Regards

Mike

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I’m afraid you can’t read that file then (in a useful way).

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I’m afraid you can’t read that file then (in a useful way).

OK, thanks Hans

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If you only want to salvage what contents you can, have you tried opening it with Notepad?

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