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Receive the following error message when I try and open a word document I saved. It says:
"We're sorry. We cannot open (the name of the document) because we found a problem with its contents.
Details: An attribute value must not contain '<'.
Location: Part: /word/document.xml, Line: 2, Column 11387"
Can anyone assist me in try to recover this document.
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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Hi Peter,
Let me assist you with the issue related to Word 2013.
You may refer to the steps mentioned in the link below and check the result:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2528942/en-us
I hope the above link helps.
Thank you.