Corrupt docm file

by **rvoliva** » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:07 pm

Hello,

I have important text in a document that was saved in .docm format. I need to retrieve the text, I don't need any formatting or anything like that. If I could just get the text out of it that would be great.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bobby

by **RoryOF** » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:17 pm

Outside of OpenOffice, rename to .docx and it should open for you. I got the attached

by **rvoliva** » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:32 pm

Thanks for the help. That doesn't seem to recover all the text that occurs after the error. This is the error I get when trying to open it:
"SAXException: [word/document.xml line 20]: Namespace prefix pic on bodyPr is not defined"

by **RoryOF** » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:42 pm

Someone using different tools, that don't run on my computer, may get the full content.

by **osnola** » Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:28 pm

After adding xmlns:pic="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/picture" in the w:document properties, LibreOffice seems able to reread the file...

document.odt: repaired file; (33.06 KiB) Downloaded 51 times

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