Word file help

Hi all,
Wondering if anyone can help. Earlier this year i was working on a larger word file (14MB) on a computer at work. To move this file to another computer I had to split it up and email it in sections to my email account as the computer wouldn't accept usb sticks and my email could only accept 2MB files

Anyway to my question.
I need to put these split files back together and can't remember which program I used to split them. The files have the extension XXX.doc.d* (* = 1 to 8). Would anyone know what program I could use to join them back together.

Thanks

 

have you try open part doc notepad

see if head might give idea of compressiion used

 

I'm not sure that I follow? I tried opening it in wordpad and some of the text is there but the rest is just strange symbols and boxes

 

I doubt the files are "compressed" if you remove the .d* part of the extension and leave it .doc only you'll most likely open the file.
Anyway check if you used this. Also there is this program - MS Word Split(not free though).


Edit: So the files actually use compression....? When you were creating the file did you use MS Word or Wordpad?

 

Have you tried going back, and re-sending it through G-Mail? I believe G-Mail has a 20 MB attachment limit.

If you don't have an account, easy to set one up.

 

The files were created in MS Word. I also tried the stuff you said but no luck. I managed to put the file back together using a program called Rip&Split but it won't open in word even if I try repairing the file so I don't think that is the proper program.

I can't find the original file anymore so that is not an option unfortunately

 

I had a small tool that checks the header of a file and display it's type, but unfortunately I cant find it right now.
Try this instead : DROID [Digital Record Object Identification] (Note : you need Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0 or later.)

 

How valuable/time-consuming is/was all of the formatting and other non-textual material in the files? If you can deal with having to reformat, you should be able to open the files up in something simple, like notepad (not wordpad - different beastie altogether), extract just the text itself, and then copy and paste that text into a new Word ".doc" file.

 

Can you try to remember/give a little more information about the splitter software that you used? Was it a freeware? Did the software let you choose the (.d*) extension or anything you want for the split files? Can the software be used to split files other than .doc?

The reason I ask is that I cannot find any split/join software that will create the (.d*) extension yet.

 

You can always try opening a command prompt and doing this:

Code:

copy /b XXX.doc.d* XXX.doc

If it's a simple split (no additional tags or anything added to the file), that should put them back together.