Read Error. Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at 2,101004(row,col)

[marissak]

Hi - I received this error while trying to save a document last night. I tried the series of steps listed for this error in other posts that have been solved. I changed the file extension to zip, extracted the contents but wasn’t able to open the .xml file in TextEdit. I could open it in Writer but I couldn’t really figure out what the actual error was. I couldn’t find my way to the position indicated in the error. I have uploaded the document. Could someone see if it can even be repaired at this point?

Thank you,

MarissaY1_Term1.odt

[marissak]

Thank you both very much! I thought I had been saving as I went along, but it looks like I was wrong! Unfortunately, I don’t have the karma to upvote your posts.

[Regina]

Try “Notepad++” with plugin “XML Tools”.

Here duplicate attributes text:anchor-type and draw:z-index. Repaired:
repaired.odt

[robleyd]

My attempts at repair give a document with 15 pages - see below. Please check that all is in order.

May I suggest you implement a backup strategy for your documents, in case bad things happen again?

Y1_term1_fixed.odt

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