While using MS Word 2007, you may need to deal with corruption issues. For example, you just started the computer for working on an existing Word file on which you have been working for last few days. When you have selected to open the file, you get an error message indicating corruption in the Word file. Occurrence of the error message means you have to repair Word document. Here in this article, we let you know about Recover Text Converter ? a tool from Microsoft that helps recovering text from the corrupt Word document. Whereas the Recover Text Converter helps recovering the text from the corrupt document, it does not retain formatting, structure, and properties of the document. However, you will get the text that you can rearrange as per your requirement. Doing this will save you from complete data loss; however, you have to spend some time rearranging, restructuring, and reformatting the recovered text. Let us execute the following steps to use the Recover Text Converter tool to repair Word document: 1.If you have any of the MS Office application or document open, then close it. 2.Insert Microsoft Installation Disc in the CD ROM. 3.Select Add or Remove Features option in the Maintenance Mode Options screen. 4.Click the Next button. The Custom Setup screen appears. 5.Select Choose advanced customization of applications option and click the Next button. The Advanced Customization screen opens up. 6.Expand the Office Shared Features node. 7.Expand the Converters and Filters node. 8.Expand the Text Converters node. 9.Select the Recover Text Converter option and then select the Run from My Computer option. Once the above given steps are executed successfully, you are setup with the Recover Text Converter option. Execute it to recover text from the corrupt Word document. As mentioned, the software will only recover the textual information; you shall not use it to recover all data from the corrupt Word document. If the document that you want to repair has lots of images, tables, OLE objects, hyperlinks, comments, etc. then you shall not use the above-specified process because images, OLE objects, hyperlinks, and comments will not be recovered. The software will only recover the text that you have to rearrange once again, which will only be a wastage of time. In that situation, you need an exclusive Word Repair tool like Kernel for Word that has been especially designed to repair Word documents damaged due to various known and unknown reasons. The reasons that may lead into performing Word repair include ? loss of network connection while sharing the document over network, CRC error while moving documents to another storage media, virus attack, abrupt system shut down while using the document, etc. Kernel for Word Repair software has been designed to repair Word documents in almost all formats, such as .doc, .docx, .dot, .dotx, .docm, and .dotm. This means the software supports all versions of MS Word, such as 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000, and 97. One can install the software on Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000 operating systems for repairing the corrupt documents.