Corrupt A Document To Buy More Time [Life Hacks]

By Nakodari on Apr 26 2010 5 Comments

Are you working on a thesis or a research paper and the deadline has approached? Or perhaps you are late for the report that was to be submitted to your manager? Most professors and company managers ask to email them the document, which you can do even if it is incomplete, by corrupting it with Document Corrupter.

Upon opening it, an error message will be shown. When asked about it, simply respond by saying that it mustn’t have uploaded properly, therefore the corrupt document. Before uploading the correct document, you will have plenty of time in-between (probably a day more) to work on completing the document before submitting it again.

Document Corrupter is an online service for quickly corrupting a Word document in .doc format. It supports both .doc and .docx formats. Once uploaded for corruption, it will provide a link to the corrupted document which you can download.

Important Note: Do NOT save the corrupt document in the same folder as the original source because it could overwrite the original document. You have been warned.

Document Corrupter

For those curious to know what an error message looks like, see screenshot below.

Word Corrupt Open

There is another option – Shuffle the pieces, which when checked, will make it 100%  impossible to recover the document but will not produce a nice error message, according to the developer.

Document Corrupter

  • Muneeb

    And how, if my manager also have heard about this service?

    • http://www.addicitivetips.com Nakodari

      Complete work on time. That should be your priority. I found this service recently and reviewed it in case someone finds it useful. It is not intended for everyone.

  • Shaun

    This is probably one of the worst tips I have ever seen. The blurb describing it was pathetic also, no-one in their right mind would do such a thing, merely get it finished in time beforehand.

    Thank you addictive tips for a useless post!

    • http://www.addicitivetips.com Nakodari

      We are not encouraging users to be late in their work but if they are caught off-guard and are late for some reason, this service could save their ass. We should have clarified in the post.

      Every service has it’s upsides and downsides, it might be a useless post but will come handy for users who want to test their “Corrupt Document Recovery” software.

      This post was also supposed to be taken as a light humor joke.

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  • Alexw

    Some people take themselves far too seriously. The headline caught my eye and I for one found it in entertaining concept which I hope never to need. :)