Important Document Corrupted - "word/styles.xml,Line: 2, Column: 18969"

Question

This document was working fine last night and this morning I am receiving this error.  I m losing days of work for something I need to submit ASAP!  Please help

The document cannot be opened as there is a problem with the contents

Unspecified Error

Location: "word/styles.xml,Line: 2, Column: 18969"

Answer 1

Happily, the main source of the corruption was within word/Style.xml and word.Document.xml. 

I could not recover the word/Style.xml internal configuration file so while no content seems to be lost, you may have to reproduce some format configuration.

There was a link to some Stantec Office Tools that I obviously did not have. I have no idea how that will impact you. The footers also seem to refer to an include doc from you temporary internet files folder. Again, not something I can reproduce.

There is a link to the repaired DOCX on my SkyDrive here.

Rpt_trails_preliminary_design_11Nov13 (Jeeped).docx

Answer 2

Can you also help me??

Answer 3

Thank you so much for your assistance.  This is incredibly helpful and saves me a lot of time that would have been spent rewriting.

Again thank you for your help.

Answer 4

I think this will work for a Dropbox quote:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/94jhrm48tdf5x8s/rpt\_trails\_preliminary\_design05Nov13.docx?n=38930307

Answer 5

If you would like someone to attempt repair on your document, you will need to upload a copy of your damaged DOCX to a public file area like SkyDrive, DropBox  or Google Drive and post the location to the publicly shared file back here.

Please try to upload a copy that has not already been subjected to repair attempts as previous attempts may have stripped content that was recoverable with a manual edit of the internal components configuration files.