MakeFileWork

Word · Excel · PowerPoint recovery

Repair a corrupted Office file

Drop a DOCX, XLSX or PPTX file that will not open. MakeFileWork first treats it as the ZIP-based OOXML package it really is, recovers only entries that can be verified safely, then checks whether the required Office package parts, application relationships and usable content references survived.

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More than “the ZIP opens”

A DOCX, XLSX or PPTX can be a technically valid ZIP and still be unusable in Office. After rebuilding the container, MakeFileWork checks for [Content_Types].xml, the package relationship file, and the application-specific main part: word/document.xml, xl/workbook.xml or ppt/presentation.xml.

What the confidence check verifies

The validator confirms that the required parts exist, that content types declare the expected main Office document, that package relationships point to that main part, and that the recovered main XML contains the expected document root element. It also checks application-level evidence: worksheet references in Excel, slide references in PowerPoint, and internal document relationships plus paragraph/text-run counts in Word. Passing these checks is stronger evidence that the repaired OOXML package is usable; it is not a guarantee that every optional style, image, chart, macro or feature survived.

Partial recovery stays explicit

If a damaged ZIP entry can be skipped safely, MakeFileWork can keep later verified entries instead of discarding the whole document. For XLSX and PPTX, when a worksheet or slide is already proven missing, MakeFileWork can remove only that dead manifest reference and its dangling relationship. For DOCX, it can also prune missing optional image, header, footer, hyperlink or embedded-object references when the corresponding XML can be removed safely while preserving the main document text. It never invents lost Office content. If the remaining package still fails the Office checks, the result stays partial or incomplete.

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This recovery and structural validation runs locally in the browser in the current workflow. The document is not uploaded for these checks.

Recovery evidence before download: repaired Word files can show recovered text and paragraph counts; Excel files can show worksheet names plus a bounded sample of recovered cell values; PowerPoint files can show slide-by-slide text excerpts. Every preview is generated locally in the browser and is not uploaded.