Need Help Opening a Corrupted File in MS Office Word 2007.

I use Microsoft Office Word 2007. I need help in opening a corrupted file. I tried to open but am getting messages: "cannot be opened", "unreadable content", "do you want to recover contents?" "Do you want to search
for a converter?"
Anyone have any ideas on how I can get this file to open? :/
Thank you,
Chuck in California

From Microsoft Documentation:-
If a file has been damaged and you cannot open it by normal means, you may be able to recover its content by using the Open and Repair
feature.
Click the
Microsoft Office Button
Browse to the file that you want to recover, and click it (do not double-click it).
Click the arrow next to the
Open button, and then click Open and Repair.
You might also like to look at this (which is just a longer version of what's above):-
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893672?wa=wsignin1.0

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