[SOLVED] Unable to open .asd file in Word2010

Re: Unable to open .asd file in Word2010

Thank you for the reply. There are in fact 1093kb in the file which is a similar size to the original file. When I open the original file it says "This file contains links that may refer to other files. Do you want to update the document with data from the linked files". When I say yes the message is "Objects in this document contain links to files that cannot be found. The linked information will not be updated". I recovered both files to an external hard drive so I am working on a different computer to the one on which the documents were created.

Re: Unable to open .asd file in Word2010

Don't think that will work as I have copied the files to the computer I am working on which does have Word. Thanks for trying!

Re: Unable to open .asd file in Word2010

I suspect that there must be links from the .asd file which is the back up file to the original file which is a .docx file. I do have both files but have not idea how to fix the links. Is there anything you can suggest?

Re: Unable to open .asd file in Word2010

Thank you so much. Managed to recover by changing .asd to .rtf, opening in OpenOffice (tables were scrambled in this format), saving as .osd and inserting file into a word document which unscrambled the tables.