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
    2016-12-27T03:46:52+00:00

    It was not possible to recover any of the graphs or charts in the document.  However, an archive Project Recovered Text and Worksheets.zip has been uploaded to the following folder of my OneDrive

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

    Let me know when you have retrieved it so that I can clean out that folder.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-04-01T15:22:50+00:00

    Hi, 

    I'm working from my phone. Is there anyway possible I can recover my file? Its something a little personal so I can't post a link. If there is anyway it can be recoverd I could always email it to someone.

    Thanks in advance

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  3. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-01T22:48:07+00:00

    You can send the file to me by email or upload a copy of the document to the following folder of my OneDrive

    https://1drv.ms/f/s!AmuIXmFDy-1a8nP3RpgnYHp-5zXK

    and send me an email to the address shown in my signature and I will see if I can recover your document.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-06-03T21:29:00+00:00

    Pls help me

    i got same problem

    this is my link

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7kr5kxU3_stSVJZaWh5MHFPUGM?usp=sharing

    thanks you

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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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