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
    2015-03-05T05:18:36+00:00

    It appears that your file was probably saved directly from Word to your Flash Drive and as a result, it is hopelessly corrupted.

    You should never save a file directly from Word to any form of removable media or open file and work on it from such media.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-03-06T21:24:44+00:00

    Hello,

    Could u help my corrupt docx?

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/1p6b03f9rlrza2m/111.docx?dl=0

    It show unreadable content when I tried to open.

    Your help is much appreciate.

    Thanks in advance

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-03-06T21:27:14+00:00

    Hello,

    Could u help my corrupt docx? Can u help me to repair it? 

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/1p6b03f9rlrza2m/111.docx?dl=0

    It show unreadable content when I tried to open.

    Your help is much appreciate.

    Thanks in advance

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-04-24T15:16:40+00:00

    I was hoping you could help me with my corrupt document as well.  I have saved it to my Google Drive at this link: 

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B27wnKF4SBhGamphTzB5T3F4bTQ&authuser=0 

    OR

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B27wnKF4SBhGamphTzB5T3F4bTQ/view?usp=sharing

    Not sure which link to provide so I'm providing both.

    Thank you so much!

    Betsy

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  5. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-04-25T00:05:00+00:00

    Sorry, I suspect that the document was probably opened from, or saved directly to some form of removable media (USB Drive\SD Card) as it cannot be opened because there is missing content.

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