Using XML Tags on Mac for Text Recovery of a Corrupted Document

Question

Hello,

I'm facing an issue with recovering a corrupted document on my Mac using Microsoft Word. As stated by Sean Cai MSFT, I cannot switch to XML View (Developer Tab) to recover the lost content because that feature in customize ribbon is only there on Word for Windows. However, I've managed to load and view the recovered text, which consists of a massive 6.8 million words. Unfortunately, I'm unable to readily add the necessary XML tags (<w:document> and </w:document>) to the beginning and end of the recovered document. Could someone please advise me on how I can add these XML tags to the recovered document on my Mac?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated,

Nathan

P.S. Its beginning looks like this:

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Answer 1

A Word file is a zipped collection of folders and files. Adding XML tags to the beginning and end is not going to recover it. Word for Windows does not have an XML view on the Developer tab.

Here's my how-to page on editing OOXML in macOS. One of the methods there may enable retrieval of some of the document information:

https://www.brandwares.com/bestpractices/2015/11/xml-hacking-editing-in-os-x/