If that can load it you can save it as a new DOCX file from there and hopefully that copy will be OK.Macbook keeps crashing on startup. Then zip it up again and what Word makes of it.ģrd option: Load it in the Google Docs online editor.

If an XML is badly formed you can usually fix it with a text-editor so it is at least a correct XML file, even if you loose some of the content if you need to cut out some corruption. not corrupt, no binary data in there, all opening tags have a close tag, etc.). so this may not be an option for you.Īnother thing to attempt is to unzip the bad file and check each XML to see if it is properly constructed (e.g. You will loose formatting, table of content, etc. This should at least allow you to recover the text-content itself.

Zip the (formerly empty) DOCX file and give it the DOCX extension. Now extract the bad file as well and move the actual XML's with the text over to the folder contain the empty DOCX. This gives you a clean sets of basic files for a DOCX. So make a fresh, empty DOCX file using Word. You can extract the content with any unzip utility. I have had some luck by doing any of the following 3 tricks:Ī DOCX is basically a zip-file containing a bunch of XML files with the actual text and (if any) the various pictures and other objects embedded in the document.

copying everything in the document and pasting into a new document (size reduces to 471 KB, so there's SOMETHING screwed up with the original, but the new document crashes in the same way as the old one, so it's something IN ADDITION to whatever's causing the crash).Ĭan anybody think of anything else I can try? Not being able to edit this document is becoming increasingly problematic.

docx that I need for the document, so just using the.

I get a 'Word hyphenation feature is not available' error whenever I open the document, but it's in Latin, so I'm not surprised.The document is 362 pages long and 3.2 MB.Word 2019 for Mac Home Edition (so no Office 365 subscription).I'm going bonkers trying to fix it, and I wonder whether anybody has any thoughts. Microsoft Word 2019 for Mac works fine for me except with one document, in which I can never type more than a few keystrokes before Word crashes.

Word on mac keeps crashing