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knguyen@emr1.emr.ca (Kim Nguyen) writes:

>Hi experts out there,
>My friend brings me a corrupted and strange file from Microsoft Word 5.0. I can
>open the whole file, but cannot save it with a notice about file corruption. I
>try to save only in text that file; the percentage at the bottom left corner
>stops at around 56% and, bingo !, I've got the above notice. Frustrated, I open
>again the file and copy the whole file and paste on a new file; the process goeson and stops at 56% of the file.
>Honestly, I never imagine that there is a kind of file corruption like this. I
>often confront with file corruption caused by hardware on floppy disk.
>Shed the light for me, please
>Thanks 

   Hmmmm, try searching for ASCII values lower than 10. Try ASCII 4 first.
That's "End of Tape". There could be a strange combination of characters
that Word interprets as "end of file".
   Try scrolling to around 56% and look for strange chars. Cut the text
between 50% and 60% and Paste it into a new file. Keep doing this until
you can narrow it down to a few chars, then just retype that small section.