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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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I have sent the repaire file back to you. While it does show changes that you had made to the original, only you would be able to tell if they are all shown.
Thanks for quick answer. I am sending the file to your e-mail account (if that is not a problem). A friend of mine did something to let me open the file: I could open it, but it lost all the comments I made with the 'track changes' option, which is the important part of the file.
If the document is not too large to attach to an email message, send me a copy of it that way, referencing this thread in the covering email message and I will see if I can recover your document..
Alternatively, 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 to let me know that it is there.
Hi, I am also having this problem (with the "end tag" message).
Is anyone able to fix it? I would highly appreciate it.
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
Hi Doug,
Thank you for your help. I downloaded the docx file and the text is not editable. Is there any way to make it so I can edit it?
Thank you!