Unspecified Error, word/document.xml, Line:2, Column: 0

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Dear document savers,

It appears that due dates for assignments makes Word eat documents.

Like others I have a corrupted .docx document. I have tried every trick in the book I can find and am now resorting to the next level of knowledgeable help.

The document crashed whilst working on a formula around the 3rd last page from memory (page 12 I believe). After waiting etc. I closed and reopened the document and found then that it would go crazy when I got to the area I was last working in, and wouldn't scroll or display content properly. When I tried again to close and open it wouldn't open it. Nothing so far has worked.

It now gives the message:

"The file Assign 3 Answers.docx cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents."

"Details"

"Unspecified Error"

"Location: Part: /word/document.xml, line: 2, column: 0"

I have uploaded the file here

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8CyUQXlwkYeUXdmVl9acWZTUEU

I can open in Googledocs but without drawings or equations. It opens in viewer.zoho.com but still cannot open a saved copy in Word 2010

I would greatly appreciate if anyone had any fixes for me.

Sincerely,

Rowan

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Anonymous

... https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8CyUQXlwkYeUXdmVl9acWZTUEU ...

The Google Docs copy was a DOC rather than a DOCX, but I downloaded it and had a look. I snipped out the BH from the second formula following "for Triangle CBH" on page 19. That will need replacing and close proofreading that area is highly recommended.

There is some strange pagination and I don't know exactly why that is nor even if the pagination is intentional. The actual corruption looked like it was due to many reformatting changes, resulting in empty formatting tags.

I've uploaded a repaired copy of the DOCX to my SkyDrive here for you to download . Be sure to get service packs for Office 2007 or 2010 installed whenever possible before further editing is performed.

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Anonymous

2015-03-25T19:14:13+00:00

Excellent, I'm so glad it worked out. Please make sure all your formulas are there.

Jeeped, Doug Robbins and others please correct me but I think two things cause Word corruptions with documents that have Math formulas, one, too many levels of nesting in the formulas and two changing comments that are inside formulas.
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Anonymous

2015-03-25T18:47:06+00:00

Thank you so much!! It opened in Libre Office. Everything is there, it was just a 5 page intro document, (good thing I had already written the other sections in separated word documents, but this was still a big part). I really needed it done for tomorrow, so thanks again for the quick response.

I'm not too sure why it wasn't opening in Microsoft. Earlier today after I wrote a long equation, it just crashed :S
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Anonymous

2015-03-25T17:30:33+00:00

Hi. It opened right up in the free Libre Office (which is the basically he same as Open Office):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gjvysgl3c8701h2/Tower%20Surge%20Impedance_Report_Open_In_Libre_Office.docx?dl=0

I suspect however that this is not all that can be recovered. I'll work on the file manually, but I think that Doug Robbins, Jeeped and others are probably better at it than I.
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Anonymous

2015-03-25T16:21:22+00:00

Hi there,

I tried using your method but I was pretty unsuccessful...

I was wondering if you could help me out with fixing my document. It's very important for my work and I already spent so much time on it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/14qtxpaiuml0no0/Tower%20Surge%20Impedance_Report.docx?dl=0

Please and thank you!
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