Error- the name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag

Anonymous
2018-01-14T04:12:40+00:00

Hi, never really posted in one of these things before I this is sort of an emergency, I have an important document due in a few days for uni and all was going good until I encounter the error 'the name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag' which is preventing me from opening my document.

Naturally when I encounter this error I googled and attempted many fixes and have been attempting to edit the document.xml file for around 4 hours now to no avail.

I would greatly appreciate some help in how to overcome this error, I've linked a google drive folder with both the entire word document as a .rar file and the document.xml file as well as a screenshot of the error below.

I really don't know how to use this site but any help would be appreciated tremendously due to the importance of me resolving this error quickly.

Thanks in advnaced for any help anyone can offer 

:)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19zeLbff\_RpBTZlhBdXn3FliQap19kNwI?usp=sharing 

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-02-09T17:28:10+00:00

    Hi Doug,

    I'm having the same problem - cant open a word file due to the error message. Is there any way you can help?

    Thanks.

    Emily

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-01-17T15:07:23+00:00

    The file is actually important. It was all working until yesterday when suddenly this error started coming. Thanks for all the effort. It has so many figures. May be leave it if it is taking this long.

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  4. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2019-01-17T09:37:50+00:00

    Part of your document has been uploaded to the following folder of my OneDrive:

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

    Contact me by email if you want the rest of it recovered.

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  5. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2019-01-17T08:30:42+00:00

    How important to you is that document?

    So far I have spent about 4 hours working through the hundreds of errors in the file and I am not sure how much longer it will take.

    Nearly all of the errors are of the same type and they are caused by images being inserted in the document other that "In-line with text".

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