Unfortunately you can't fully recover your original file from one of these text files. These files are generally created when you lose access to a drive where your .doc file is saved. Word doesn't hold your full file in memory though, so it can't save all of it for recovery.
The file should contain some plain text that may help you recover some of your document edits manually. More detail can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224068
In particular Microsoft says:
"The file "Rescued Document
If a word document is rescued using AutoRecover functionality, it should appear on the left hand side pane the next time you start Word.
If you have overwritten a document you can not restore it.
Txt format is a text document. It's the default in Notepad when you save a file.
If you have a .txt file that you want to be a html file, do this: open the .txt file and then save as and (change the name to what you want to call the file).html. Make sure that you 'save as' for all files or you will be saved as: somename.html.txt which will result it still be a text document. Make sure that you have the document in HTML format.
Change the Doc format to . any other format like rich txt format or .TXT format
Yes, you can save files in the .TXT format.
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A plain text (.txt) file can be opened by any text based software so if the recipients do not have the Word software they can still read the text file.
Open your text document Go to the edit menu Click on "select all" Right click on the highlighted text Select copy Open your word document and paste.
page width in the view tab will restore it to one pane
Recover ms word document with the help of following utility it restore word file without changing original file data
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