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
    2015-11-29T00:50:02+00:00

    Did you work on the file while it was located on some form of removable media?

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-28T14:06:00+00:00

    Hey there,

    I seem to be facing the exact same problem except for a minor detail. I have originally saved my word file to desktop, and it was working just fine but then I cut the file and posted it on USB which appears to have been infected, when I tried to copy it from the USB to another laptop, the same error message popped up as the one above. Please try to help me, I'd really appreciate it ..

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3XtCXn89WwpV3FfUzIxaWZidW8/view?usp=sharing

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-09-15T22:34:24+00:00

    I am having the same issue, can someone please help?  I have tried the normal recovery methods, even trying to scrape the text using a hex editor, but to no avail.  It is time sensitive, so if there is an easy way to fix it ASAP, let me know.

    It is here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8GYNKasovWRQ1d2dVFPSzlMMDA/view?usp=sharing

    Thanks!

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  4. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-07-08T12:23:20+00:00

    FWIW, 10 minutes is the default interval for saving AutoRecovery data.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-07-08T08:06:18+00:00

    I fixed it by creating a new file - it might have something to do with my computer crashing the night before. Read somewhere that that could cause problems. My Auto-Save interval was set to 10 minutes - don't know if that is regarded as very short. 

    Thanks for your rapid reply - appreciate it.

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