Windows 10: Why does a normal word Doc corrupt by itself and refuse to open? This happened on my USB...

Please tell me why a normal Word Doc. corrupts itself on a USB drive, then a copy of the same file gets corrupted on the desktop as well? is it my computer?

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many thanks for responding and trying to help me. the problem is that all of the docs in various folders that were word docs are no longer word docs - they only open on wordpad (and so parts of the docs cannot be seen). does anyone know why that would
happen?

I actually don't know if I have a current subscription to office.

thanks again for any help anyone can give

 

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Hi SasaD,

Sounds frustrating ... I open, use, and create Word docs all the time on my Windows Phone and would be lost without this capability.

Sounds like the Word doc might have been corrupted. I would suggest a test by creating a simple Word document on a computer and then email it to your phone. If that works, then ask the sender of the previous Word doc to try resending it. If it fails again,
it would definitely be a corrupted doc (the desktop version of Office might be able to handle some corruption that the mobile version cannot).

At that point, I would suggest recreating the document that is causing the issue.

I hope this helps!

David

 

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Hi,

If you right click on one of the doc files & choose open with is Word listed?

Do you have a current subscription to Office?