In Windows 7 you can right-click a file and click Properties. Then at the top right of the result you'll see a tab called Previous Versions. That would be the first place to look, assuming your friend doesn't have a backup copy. In the future he would be well advised to make backup copies of anything he didn't want to lose.
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Good luck.
Friend has word document which has got corrupted.
They don't know how, but just can't get the useful information from it at all.
Tried Open and repair and Easy Recovery Word Repair but no joy with that either.
Any other idea's?

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