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I have a partially corrupted MS-Word file which I'd like to inspect in the byte-level.

+1  A: 

I'm sure there are many, but Ultraedit does this.

Kent Boogaart
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I like the freeware hex editor xvi32 for this kind of task.

danio
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If you have Visual Studio installed, you can add the .dat extension to the file and open it in Visual Studio to get a hex/ASCII display.

Guffa
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What you need is a hex editor. Some text editors can run in this mode. I always used PSPadfor this

cube
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HexEdit is pretty nice (allows you to edit files too)

Philippe Leybaert
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As always there's emacs, hexl-mode allows you to view and edit hex-files.

Nifle
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010 Editor is nice for looking at files that follow some template, it'll try to turn the raw data into meaningful labeled values for you.

Rob Elliott
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Take a gander at BeyondCompare for file comparisons; version 3 has comparisons for Word files as well. You'd be surprised at how often you'll use it once you have it.

Metro Smurf