Why is this file very very bad?

Question

Hi all;

I've spent 2 hours on this and have made no progress.The file ATE-2170.docx appears correct to me (created by our program). But Word won't open it and gives no indication as to why.

Any ideas?

thanks - dave

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Answer 1

Hi Dave, 

I'll take a look at the file and see if I can identify a problem. Do you have any ideas what area of the format might be in question with this example? 

Best regards,
Tom Jebo
Sr Escalation Engineer
Microsoft Open Specifications

Answer 2

Hi Dave,

With Word for Android, I could see/open a Word document you'd shared.
But I could not with Word 2016 for Windows. Word for Windows says it is corrupted.
Which Word are you using?

Regards,

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Answer 3

Hi Dave,

Your file might be recovered. Please download "ATE-1440_recovered.docx" via OneDrive.

Regards,

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Answer 4

Hi Tom;

I'm using Windows desktop Word 2016 - latest update.

thanks - dave

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Answer 5

Hi Ashidacchi;

Unfortunately recovering it doesn't help - the problem for me is why is it bad. My code created it and I have to figure out what I need to do differently.

thanks - dave

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Answer 6

Hi Dave,

Sorry, I don't have answer about WHY.  I'm afraid you need to provide your code.

Regards,

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Answer 7

Dave, 

After spending some time debugging Word's XML parsing, I was able to find one problem that Word doesn't like. You had nested <Relationship> tags. This is not allowed. Relationship elements can't have child Relationship elements. The word\charts\_rels\chart1.xml.rels had this block: 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Relationships xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships">
  <Relationship Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/package" Target="../embeddings/Windward_ChartData_1.xlsx" Id="rId3">
    <Relationship Id="rId2" Type="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2011/relationships/chartColorStyle" Target="colors1.xml"/>
    <Relationship Id="rId1" Type="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2011/relationships/chartStyle" Target="style1.xml"/>
  </Relationship>
</Relationships>

Notice the bolded "Relationship" elements. 

Unfortunately, Word still isn't opening the document so I think there are yet more issues. This will take some more time and could involve multiple iterations. 

Thanks,

Tom

Answer 8

Tom;

First off thank you. That is bad and I'll fix it.

For the rest, you can stop on this. I reverted back to some previous code that is correct and worked from that. So we're good now. And no point in tracking down what weird little difference causes this if we no longer need to know.

Again, thank you for working on this.

thanks - dave

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Answer 9

Hey Dave, 

Thanks for the explanation. I won't dig further. 

Tom