Error in Word 2013 file: The name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag

Hi,

This error appears due to some mismatched XML tags on your document. It's also possible that this happened due to some Math equations. Just to confirm, does your document contain Math equations? If it does, download the Fix It tool here, which will help you recover the file, though it may not resolve the root cause. Once you've recovered it, you can copy the contents of the document and paste it to a new document.

After using the Fix It tool, we suggest installing the Office 2013 Service Pack 1 to prevent this error from occurring in the future. Follow the steps here to download the Service Pack 1.

If the Fix It tool doesn't help you recover the document even after installing the Service Pack 1, we'd like to request a copy. Please upload it to OneDrive and share the link here.

Let us know if you're able to recover the document after following these steps.

If you upload a copy of the file to a folder on your OneDrive and set that FOLDER to be shared and get a link to the folder and paste it into a message that you post back here, someone may be able to recover the file for you.

Alternatively, if you upload a copy to the following folder of my OneDrive

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AmuIXmFDy-1a8nP3RpgnYHp-5zXK

and send me an email to let me know that it is there, I will try and recover your document for you.

Thank you for your response.

I have uploaded my file in your One Drive. 

Hoping to get solution :) 

Thank you once again 

Regards

Junu 

Was your document saved to a USB Drive or some other form of removable media, or were you working on it when it was located on such media.

The type of corruption in the document suggests that was the case as the file is so badly damaged that it is not possible to open or extract the files from the archive after changing the extension to .zip, which is the first step in the process of recovering a document.

You should NEVER save a Word document directly from Word to any form of removable media or work on a file when it is located on such media as catastrophic, unrecoverable corruption of the document is an almost certain consequence.

Dear Doug:

It was never been save in the USB or any form of removable media. It was saved in the hard drive. This is quite important file and I have been working in the same document since past several days. Unfortunately, I have no backup of the file as it was about to complete. Please suggest if at least i can recover 80% of the work.  

https://1drv.ms/w/s!ApybIqq5kgGrk4wJvjXRWTO9mFoLKA

Hi:

Thanks for your response. Here is the link.

Regards

Junu  

Even after downloading the document and following the repair process, the file still could not be opened, as Doug found out when he tried to repair it. Since the document is corrupted to this level, the recovery attempt is unsuccessful. In some cases, a document may get corrupted because some important Office system files are also corrupted. To prevent any other files from getting corrupted, we suggest repairing Office by following the steps here. 

Feel free to let us know if you have any other concerns about Office documents.