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

Anonymous

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.

Office service packs

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Anonymous

2014-05-08T03:43:14+00:00

I've looked at both corrupt DOCX's and the problem seems to be a catastrophic archive failure rather any sort of XML failing. It also seems that there is about a page and a half of text in total. Have you considered simply retyping this?
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Anonymous

2014-05-08T02:34:13+00:00

Jeeped, as I've been reading through the posts in this thread it seems that

you have been a Godsend to many people and I am wondering if you could possibly see if you could help me out. My wife has a paper that was stored on a flash drive that she worked on for about 15 or so hours. The paper was about 11 pages and then the flash drive all the sudden stopped working. A friend of ours was able to recover the files, although I am not sure how, and sent them to me. I have no clue on what to do. Please help! My wife is stressed because it has to be submitted in 2 days. Anything you do will be greatly appreciated.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nru6sus4bghlp2y/Entry%203%202.docx

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wx7b2vmvg7y2s12/Entry%203.docx
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Anonymous

2014-04-28T03:28:19+00:00

FWIW, here is a link to what was recovered. As I guessed, it is about a page-and-a-half.

EENV 545 (Jeeped).docx
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Anonymous

2014-04-28T03:26:18+00:00

Ok, thank you so much for looking at my document. I really appreciate your help. Is there anything I can do to help your rating within this help forum?

Thanks again!
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