

Zip the (formerly empty) DOCX file and give it the DOCX extension. Now extract the bad file as well and move the actual XML's with the text over to the folder contain the empty DOCX.

This gives you a clean sets of basic files for a DOCX. So make a fresh, empty DOCX file using Word. You can extract the content with any unzip utility. I have had some luck by doing any of the following 3 tricks:Ī DOCX is basically a zip-file containing a bunch of XML files with the actual text and (if any) the various pictures and other objects embedded in the document.

docx that I need for the document, so just using the. I get a "Word hyphenation feature is not available" error whenever I open the document, but it's in Latin, so I'm not surprised.The document is 362 pages long and 3.2 MB.Word 2019 for Mac Home Edition (so no Office 365 subscription).I'm going bonkers trying to fix it, and I wonder whether anybody has any thoughts. Microsoft Word 2019 for Mac works fine for me except with one document, in which I can never type more than a few keystrokes before Word crashes.
