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Martin,<br />
I found another way. The document was sent as an email attachment. So I went to sent items, located the email with the document and open the file. IT WORKED!<br />
I appreciate your suggestions and will keep them in mind in case the problem occurs again.
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Martin,
I found another way. The document was sent as an email attachment. So I went to sent items, located the email with the document and open the file. IT WORKED!
I appreciate your suggestions and will keep them in mind in case the problem occurs again.

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I have a Word 16 document that I cannot open because of the following error<br />
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2018/03_w13/1290992/Word-error.jpg" target="_blank" title="Error opening word document (37 KB)"><img alt="Error opening word document" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 574px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2018/03_w13/1290992/Word-error.jpg" /></a>How can I recover my file?
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I have a Word 16 document that I cannot open because of the following error

How can I recover my file?

Corrupted Word document

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.