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1. Download  http://www.wordarticles.com/temp/Rebuilder.dotm Microsoft Office Word Macro-Enabled Template (.dotm) and open it.
2. Click Options button on the Security warning and select Enable this content. 
        
3. Click the Broken Documents tab at the far right of the ribbon.
        
4. Click the Rebuild button in the left-hand side
        
5. Locate and open your corrupt document in the file open dialog.

That's it. The process will repair your document if possible and create a new document with (Rebuilt) appended to the filename. Be patient as it may take a few minutes. If a repair is not possible, you can then post to a public file area and someone here can attempt a manual repair.

Notepad ++ is a good, free editor for this type of task

·         Make a copy of the file

·         Rename the copy from DOCX to ZIP

·         Open … .ZIP/word/document.xml in notepad

·         Copy the contents of the file to clipboard

·         Open Word

·         Paste a copy of the copied XML into Word

·         (optional) the XML is one long string too hard to read, you can replace some tags, with that tag plus a para mark to break up the text to make it more people readable.

·         Open an XML validator, ie this site on the internet: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp

·         Paste another copy of the XML into the “Syntax Check Your XML” input window

·         Click on “validate” button

·         Copy the missing tag, ie </mc:Fallback>  (yours will be different)

·         Return to word Find: mc:Fallback>  (without the </ so you find both open and closing tags).  Repeat find until you hit 2 open tags in a row.  Then you just have to figure out where to put the closing tag between them.  Look for other tags before and after a proper closing tag so you can match the problem area to a good area.

This is a simple tool designed to edit Ribbon XML. It includes XML validation. I haven’t tried it, but it may help fix this problem. Open the Word. Xml file in this editor and see what happens.

The logical structure of a Word 97‑2003 format document is one of a series of elements arranged in a hierarchy, much like a mini file system. As an example, here is the structure of a simple Word 97‑2003 (.doc) format document:

MyDocument.doc
1Table
*CompObj
Word Document
*SummaryInformation
*DocumentSummaryInformation

The physical structure of the complete file bears little relation to the logical structure; it is, again, of a proprietary design, a compound, or structured storage, file. Briefly, and loosely, the separate logical elements of the file are broken up into blocks; these blocks are treated as individual units, which units are then organised without regard for their logical arrangement, and catalogued, catalogue and organisation detail being held alongside the blocks themselves, to enable recombination into logical components when necessary.

Just to give you a flavour, here are some views of three small parts of such a document, viewed in a hex editor:

Views of a Word 97-2003 format Document

The logical structure of a Word 2007 format document is one of a series of elements arranged in a hierarchy, much like a mini file system. As an example, here is the structure of a simple Word 2007 (.docx) format:

MyDocument.docx

_rels

rels

docProps

app.xml

core.xml

word

_rels

document.xml.rels

theme

theme1.xml

document.xml

settings.xml

fontTable.xml

webSettings.xml

styles.xml

[Content_Types].xml

As briefly as before, the [Content_Types] file and the _rels folders, along with the subordinate files therein, contain information about the logical structure, and the two files in the docProps folder contain much the same as the two Information files in the old format. The document.xml element within the word folder holds the bulk of the document content and the other files within that same folder hold formatting details.

So, you might say, the internal structure of a document has changed a little, so what? There are, however, other changes that make a bigger difference. The first is that, although both logical formats are conceptually similar, they are wrapped up in completely different ways to make a single file. Instead of the proprietary physical structure used for Word 97‑2003 format documents, a fairly standard, and open, Zip Archive format is used for Word 2007 format documents. The second change is that instead of using obscure binary codes, everything in Word 2007 format documents, well almost everything, is held in XML format.

All data held as XML? In a standard Zip Package? It should be much easier to work with, then? Judge for yourself; here are some views of parts of a Word 2007 format document taken from a hex editor:

Views of a Word 2007 format Document

he most likely cause of your particular problem is that you are missing a schema prefix reference within the opening <document ...> XML tag (usually the second one). Different schema references are required for various types of specialty content. Here is a sample opening <document ...> tag with a large number of various schema prefix codes. If I remove one or two of these, i can reproduce your error message.

<w:document xmlns:ve="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships" xmlns:m="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:wp="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing" xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main" xmlns:wne="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml">

It's impossible to blindly say exactly what you are missing but if you post an unadulterated copy of your document to a public file area (as noted above) and post the location back here, someone may be able to help. If you are going to go this route, send a copy that has not already been subjected to repair attempts.

FWIW, while it may be hard to determine exactly which schema you may be missing, I do not believe that having extras causes any problems.

                        

BTW, you don't actually have to rename the DOCX file extension if you have an archiving program. I use WinRAR and simply <right-click>, Open With... to expose the archive.

Is the issue with a particular file or it’s the same with all the files?

Usually this error is often caused by opening/saving documents from/to removable media (Flash Drives). Try to copy the file on local hard drive and try to access and check the result.

If it is happening with a particular file check the below articles and follow the steps: