How to Fix a Corrupted Word File With Math-type Equations

Microsoft Word is part of the Microsoft Office suite; you can use word to type and prepare documents. These documents can contain text and mathematical equations and symbols, although Word cannot calculate math functions the way Excel can. Word files are stored as .doc files on your computer's hard drive. If your hard drive becomes damaged, the files stored on it can become corrupted. If your Word files become corrupted, you can use a corruption repair program to fix the files. You can download these programs on the Internet.

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  Use the free program ICE ECC to repair your damaged Word documents. ICE ECC can also protect your word documents from future corruption. When the program's menu appears choose the type of file you want to repair; in this case, Word files. The program will search the drive for the corrupted Word files and repair them.

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  Download the program Unstoppable Copier for free in order to repair corrupt Word documents. This program will attempt to recover every piece of data from the corrupt file and piece it together again; this often makes the data usable even if every part cannot be ultimately recovered. In the program's main menu, choose the hard drive as the location to be scanned and Unstoppable Copier will search for corrupted Word files and repair them.

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  Repair your corrupt Word documents with the program DOC Regenerator 2.11. This program can also restore deleted, lost or overwritten Word documents. DOC Regenerator will scan the entire drive to reassemble corrupted data so that no data is lost. If the file was overwritten, DOC Regenerator will piece together the fragments of the file it finds on the disk. In the program interface, choose the "C:/" drive as the location to be scanned. DOC Regenerator will search through the entire hard drive to locate the corrupted information and put it back together. As of November 2010, the full version of this program costs $29.99.