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Addressing Corrupt or Damaged Document Issues

By Sue Hughes
October 28, 2009

Have you ever heard this about discovering a corrupt or damaged document: “If you haven't seen it happen yet, you just haven't seen it happen yet.” Or perhaps you're one of those rare individuals who only creates documents from scratch, doesn't reuse existing documents, won't copy and paste information from one document to another, and never allows anyone else into that document for editing purposes. But even if you are one of those rare individuals, chances are, you'll encounter document corruption sooner or later.

This introduction is not meant to discourage you, but rather enlighten you to a few facts: 1) you're not alone; 2) there are methods for salvaging your documents; and 3) there are best practice tips to help alleviate the possibility of introducing corruption into your document.

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