Word found unreadable content...

Anonymous
2013-11-09T14:49:04+00:00

I am working on my dissertation and recently purchased Word 2010.  Now, when I try to open my paper I get an error message that "Word found unreadable content in....."  When I select yes, to recover that contents I then get another error message that says "we are sorry.  We can't open ......because we found a problem with its contents."  The details then state:  "Operation aborted: max-element-depth constraint violated."

I have tried doing the open and repair and then saving but nothing works...help please?

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  1. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-10-05T00:36:50+00:00

    Were your documents saved directly from Word to a USB Drive or some other form of removable media?

    They are corrupted in a way that suggests that was the case as it is not possible to extract anything from the archive after changing the extension of the files to .zip.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-05T00:10:33+00:00

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  3. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-09-07T14:37:04+00:00

    I am sorry, but it is not possible to recover anything from that document.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-09-07T06:28:58+00:00

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwldNr-B3sl\_S1dVNFVGS1BFMGs/view?usp=drivesdkCould someone please have a look at this? I'm devastated! 40 pages just "unreadable" out of nothing...

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  5. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-06-04T00:08:49+00:00

    It was not possible to do anything with the file Template Eselon II and while I was able to recover Template Eselon IV, I was only able to save the recovered file in Word 97-2003 format as whenever I tried to save it as a .docx file, it caused Word to crash.  Probably the only thing that you can do with it is print it so that you have a copy of the text.  I also uploaded a copy in pdf format to the following folder of my OneDrive

    https://1drv.ms/f/s!AmuIXmFDy-1azRlX2JBMPPp_Nb1x

    Let me know when you have retrieved them so that I can delete them from that folder.

    Were your documents saved to some form of removable media, such as a USB Drive?  You should NEVER open a Word document when it is on such a device, or save a Word document directly to such a device; corruption of the document is an almost certain result.

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