Can't open Word File because of end tag/start tag mismatch error...need XML help!

Anonymous
2010-06-09T00:42:38+00:00

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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Anonymous
2011-04-25T16:26:25+00:00

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

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-11-18T05:42:01+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-11-17T21:33:27+00:00

    Hi,

    I have the same problem with my word document. Can you please fix it? Thanks!

    here is the link to download my file

    http://www.4shared.com/file/U64YEvtr/Production_Rate.html

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-11-17T12:52:46+00:00

    Thank you so much, you've made my day!

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-11-17T12:17:32+00:00

    Does that mean you have some other version of the file that might be in better shape? If your buddy was able to edit any xml this was not the file he started with. The start of the file - which is good

    • could be used to extract some structural information about the document, mostly pakage overhead, but not any document content.

    Enjoy,

    Tony

    www.WordArticles.com

    I could get 3/4 of the first page of the document. After that, it is garbage. Seehttp://www.sendspace.com/file/j6rc1l

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