CNET Editors' review
Microsoft Word documents are susceptible to corruption and loss from a variety of causes, including viruses and other attacks, system crashes, software incompatibility, and even media read errors and other inexplicable events. Stellar Information Systems' Phoenix Word Recovery Software can help users recover and repair damaged Word documents. It doesn't promise to recover every lost document, but it can undo a wide range of damage.
This program's job is to find Word docs gone on walkabout in your system and, if they're damaged or corrupted, restore them to a previous state, including all links, OLE objects, and document information. The clean but very basic interface opens with quick-start instructions in the main display and a small pop-up for adding files to the left-hand tree view. Tabs display full documents as well as Filtered and Raw text. The program won't do its thing if Word is running, a minor annoyance. Clicking the Repair button almost instantly prepared our Word doc for saving, though a pop-up in the trial version noted that we'd need to register the program to save the recovered document. A log view recorded the action, a helpful feature when recovering multiple documents.
Phoenix Word Recovery works in Vista and Windows 7 and supports Word versions from 2000 to 2007. It has a fully indexed Help file as well as online support and a knowledge base. The registered version is available in a variety of licensing options. If you depend on Word, it's worth it to check out Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery.
Publisher's Description
From Stellar Information Systems:
Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery software designed to repair and recover corrupted Microsoft Word documents. This advanced document-repair program restores damaged Word files after instances of accidental format, software malfunction, virus attacks, unexpected systems shutdown, Media Read Error. The software repairs and recovers lost data from corrupted Word files in all instances of Word corruption when you can not open a Word document, find contents missing or have to deal with some error messages like- Microsoft Word has encountered a problem and needs to close, Unable to connect to Microsoft Word, Word encountered a problem and must shut down, Runtime Error!, Cannot save file, Insufficient memory and so on. You easily recover your Microsoft Word document, restoring tables, images, formatting, lists, charts, bullet, drawing, headers and footer and other contents which have been corrupted or damaged. Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery Software does a thorough scan of the corrupted .doc files and restores the word file. The software offers you a live demonstration of its features through a free demo version. This software scans and shows the list of recoverable files. If you find the desired results, purchase the activation key to active the software and save your precious data. The software supports Word 2007, 2003, XP (2002) and Word 2000 and compatible with Windows NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista. It's fast, user-friendly with requires just 2 clicks to repair all word files. In our constant endeavor to offer our customer the best solution and services, we offer a 30 days money back guarantee on Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery Software. The Software is Simple to operate, with no prior technical skills required and backed up by 24X5 unlimited customer supports.
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"Useless product."
Version: Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery Software 4.0
Pros
Program distributive has small size.
Cons
I wouldn't recommend it even an enemy.
Summary
Product has quite good interface. But couldn't recover any corrupted word file on my PC. I waited the finish of recovery process nearly a half an hour and withous success. During the repairing my computer suspended three times. The program takes your time and nerves.
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"failed to work"
Version: Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery Software 4.0
Pros
none, although they did repsond reasonably quickly to the multipe e-mails i had to send to their support staff.
Cons
did not correct the file after payment and downloading activation key. submitted file to Stellar 4 times. they claimed that nothing was in the file and yet on another computer the file was fine. refused to give my money back. will initiate credit card fraud process. Buyer Beware.
Summary
The failure to refund my money despite the advertised return policy is a sign of a company not to do business with.
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"NO OUTPUT showing different words"
Version: Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery Software 3.0
Pros
no couldnot see anything
Cons
no cannot say anything
Summary
downloaded this tool with others and could only see some characters in the preview.
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"doesn't work"
Version: Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery Software 3.0
Pros
none at all
Cons
hangs up. Not even able to close itself (need to run task manager)
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"The demo version has no functionality at all."
Version: Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery Software 2
Cons
One can install the software, and select a file to recover, but that is it. One can't see what can be recovered, or see a partial file. All the demo version allows is for one to select the file to be recovered. Period.
Might be OK software, but without buying a key, there's no way to know and I never buy without a pretty good idea of what a program can do.
In addition, some parts of the program are left behind after uninstall.
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