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I get the following message when i try to open a word document that i desperately need
The name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag
Location: Part: word/document.xml, Line: 2, Column: 96760
I know how to "unzip" the docx files and get to the main document.xml file, but i know nothing about xml programming. Any suggestions? i got an xml editor and found that there are 6 mismatch errors, but i don't know how to fix them. I also don't know how to rezip al the files back into a docx format. I would love any help. Thanks.
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You're welcome Catherine.
Going forward if you or anyone else comes across this issue again, we have a FixIt solution created that should address this problem. You can go to the following KB article and it should give you the details about how you can correct these documents.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2528942
Brandon
Hey, I am having this exact same problem, group project due tomorrow, I'm the lucky guy that gets to write it all up and I am getting the following error:
"Location: Part: /word/document.xml, Line: 2, Column: 222801"
I've managed to open the .xml file and I have no idea what I am doing in order to try and fix the error. If anyone could please try and fix the file it would be greatly appreciated. The file can be found below:
http://www.mediafire.com/?kbwdpdgwt5blu82
Any help would save my life guys. I thank you in advance.
Thanks, Yves. I haven't got round to installing VS 2010 yet - it was on my list of things to do, but that may have to wait until I, as well, write my own indenter :(
Enjoy,
Tony
> I extract the document xml and run it through a selfwritten xml indenter
I use Visual Studio
Enjoy,
Tony
I used to do that as well.
But ever since I have VS2010 that's no longer possible. The new 'improved' editor can't handle such long lines anymore and the indenter just hangs. Seehttp://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xmlandnetfx/thread/c9c8695f-fec5-41eb-b45d-17b27fa8c1f8
> I extract the document xml and run it through a selfwritten xml indenter
I use Visual Studio
Enjoy,
Tony