Unable to open recovered Word document

Recuva
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I have recovered some accidentally deleted Word documents from a USB stick. Recuva reported them as being in excellent condition with no overwritten clusters. They appear to have recovered successfully. However I get an error message when I try to open them in Word: "Word experienced an error trying to open the file. Try these suggestions: Check the file permissions for the document or drive; make sure there is sufficient free memory and disk space; open the file with the Text Recovery converter".

I have tried all these, but with no success!

Anyone have any ideas??

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Try opening with Wordpad and you may be abel to save the raw text.

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You can also open Word, go to the document and to the right of the file name at the bottom of the window is a drop down menu. Try Recover Text From Document. If it works it will bring up some formatting commands too, but just salvage what you need.