Despite what many people may think, Microsoft Word documents are susceptible to corruption and data loss from a variety of sources. These issues could arise from viruses and other attacks, system crashes, software incompatibility, and even media read errors or other events. This is where Stellar Phoenix Word Repair can help you recover and repair damaged Word documents.

Stellar Phoenix Word Repair has a clean but basic interface that opens with quick-start instructions in the main display and a small pop-up for adding files to the left-hand tree view. You also have some tabs that display full documents as well as filtered and raw text.

The app can locate rogue Word docs and if they're damaged or corrupted, it can restore them to a previous state, including all links, OLE objects, and document information. Once Stellar Phoenix Word Repair has located the document you need, simply click the Repair button and voila! your, once rogue, document is prepared for saving*, along with a log view that recorded the action.

Overall, Stellar Phoenix Word Repair is capable of recovering all aspects of Microsoft Word documents, including formatting, attachments and text content. The wizard-based interface is easy-to-use and it requires hardly any user input to fix corrupted files. The app supports Word 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, XP (2002) and Word 2000 and compatible with Windows NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/2007/8/8.1 Vista. It has a fully indexed Help file as well as online support and a knowledge base.

*The trial version is unable to save recovered documents without registration.