This is unbelievable I have the exact same problem i was working on the
business plan for 2 days and all of the sudden today it stops working.
The business plan template is from the office site SCORE and the title is
Business Plan for Startup business. What really is killing me is that the
plan is supposed to be going to someone soon.
The error message i get is Office Open ML file Filename.docx cannot be
opened because there are problems with its content. I click on details and
get the message whitespace expected Location Part: /word/document.xml line 2
column 1556096.
I have tried open and repair as well as recover text from any file. I even
changed the xtension to zip to inspect the document.xml file but that file
will not open. This file is highly critical and contains confidential
information, so i can not send it off to anyone. i am very technical so once
i have the right steps i can do them. I NEED HELP.
"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
Hi L.L.,
Do you have a link to the Microsoft Business Plan template you are using? The comment to beta isn't necessarily to the Word software
itself but to changes made in the new document formats in pre-release versions of Office 2007 that can cause older documents to not
be readable in some cases by the release version.
The Office Open XML file formats that are used in Word 2007 are zipped XML files and even in a corrupted one it's not uncommon to be
able to manually extract the contents to preserve it although it's certainly not an obvious procedure.
If you create a copy of the document (to preserve the original) and use File=Open to open the document what is the error message
you're seeing?
If you use File=Open and on the Open|v button choose the repair option do you get the same result? Also if you set the file type
to 'recover text from any file'?
If you close and restart Word while holding down the control key can you open the document?
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"LL" wrote in message news
Of course my software is not the beta version.
I used the business plan template I found from Microsoft sources. Didn't
have time to create the whole thing from the beginning.
Again, I ran into the same kind of problem when I had my copy of Word 6.0 in
Windows 3.1 in around 14 years ago. I lost all my work because the saved file
could not be opened again. They seem to corrected the problem later after
issuing 6.0c patch. It is disappointing they still have this kind of problem
a decade later.
--
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*