Fix Content Error in Microsoft Word File

Sometimes, while editing a Microsoft Word document, the program may suddenly crash and make its entire contents inaccessible. Every time you try to open a Word file, you may get unspecified error message stating 'The file <document filename> cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents”. In such cases, try built in method to resolve content error in Microsoft Word document. Here is the tutorial to learn how to repair Word documents with content error.

How to manually fix content error in Microsoft Word files?

• Right click on Word document and select Rename option
• Rename DocumentName.docx file in to DocumentName.zip file format
• You will get DocumentName.xml file and Open it using Notepad
• To find which element cause the content problem, you need to format XML content via plug-in
• Select Pretty print (XML only – with line breaks) option in order to format XML contents
• After content is formatted, convert DocumentName.xml to .zip, then change ZIP to DOCX and Open the Word document

Even after following the above procedure, if you get the same error, then choose detail option to see which line has error. Find the line and delete the whole tag. Copy XML in to zip file, rename the extension to DOCX and try to open. In case, if you get the error again, then make use of Remo Repair Word software to effectively fix content error in Microsoft Word. Not only content error, it is also capable enough to fix error bookmark not defined Word, Word file association error, invalid file format error, etc. on different versions of Windows OS such as Windows 10, Windows 8 and 8.1, XP, Windows 7, Vista, Windows 2000, etc.

Repair Word documents with content error using Remo Repair Word tool

Remo Repair Word program easily resolves all kinds of Word file errors including content error in Word file. It safely remove various errors in Word document and creates healthy copy of a file along with its attributes intact, thus the original file contents remains untouched. The software allows you to fix invalid file format error on Word file by yourself without requiring any technical knowledge.

Quick guide to repair Word documents with content error

Click Download button to get free demo version of Remo Repair Word software and install it on your Windows computer. After installing, you need to run the utility to fix content error in Microsoft Word document to make it accessible.

Step 1: Launch Remo Repair Word. Select Word document with content error using “Browse” option, then click on “Repair” button

Step 2: The software automatically start fixing errors in selected Word document which you can monitor by looking at the progress bar

Step 3: Once you get “File Repaired Successfully” message on your screen, click on “Preview File” button to see the repaired Word file

Step 4: Click “Browse” button to select storage location of your choice and click on “Save” to save the fixed Word document

List of factors that make your Word document to display error messages

• Abrupt termination of Word: Mistakenly closing Microsoft Word application without using Exit option could damage the file content that makes your document to display content error.
• Opening Word document in faulty application: Trying to open Word document in unsupported or inappropriate computing environment might corrupt and causes your document to display content or other types of error messages.
• Word file header corruption: Header plays an important role to open and access your Word document. Suppose, if the header file is corrupted due to any reasons, then Word document pops up error messages when you to try open it.

Apart from above mentioned reasons, you may also get errors in Word file due to virus attack, round tripping, etc. Any type of error that you may encounter including insufficient memory or disk space in Word while opening Word document will be fixed with the assistance of Remo Repair Word tool. It repairs both DOC and DOCX files created on various versions of Microsoft Word including 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003 and 2000.