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Hello everyone,
I keep getting this error message when I try and open an important file on my c: drive. This is the original copy. This started happening after I emailed it to someone (they can not open it either). Is there any way to recover this? I have already tried opening it up using “open and repair” but I get the same thing. This is an extremely important document so any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Word experienced an error trying to open the file.
Try these suggestions.
*Check the file permissions for the document or drive
*Make sure there is sufficient free memory and disk space
*Open the file with the Text Recovery converter.

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  1. I think Open and Repair is the only option that is built into Word that will open the document. Have you tried opening the document in notepad or wordpad?
    Just thought of something else…
    Create a new document in Word. Then go to the Insert menu and then select ‘File’. Here you can try inserting your file that will not open into the new document. I have had this work sometimes – but not usually.
    Here’s something to look at:
    http://support.microsoft.com/defaul…
    https://community.office365.com/en-…
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=…
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