How to Resolve 'Office Open XML File File_Name Cannot Be Opened' Error in a Word 2007 Document

Microsoft Word 2007 has undergone a complete overhaul as compared to its earlier versions. The fresh and intuitive interface has made it easy for you to create professional and interesting documents. The inclusion of ribbon which hosts various commands and options is quite a novel and useful feature. Despite these advantages, the Word documents are constantly targeted by corruption and other problems. The problem aggravates and evolves as a major headache when you start receiving weird error messages which lead to data inaccessibility. To battle all such situations, it is must for you to have a suitable and appropriate backup. However, if a backup doesn't exist or it doesn't prove helpful then you must select and download a third-party Word repair software from the Internet.

Let's consider a real-time scenario, wherein, you have a Word 2007 document containing information regarding your organization's major projects and achievements records. You open the Word document in order to cross-check certain figures and, instead receive the following error message:

"The Office Open XML file file_name cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents."

Thanks to the abrupt error message, you are unable to access its content or make some changes to it.

Cause

You are experiencing the above error message with your Word 2007 document if it contains a corrupt Excel stock chart. A stock chart, which consists too many columns, is vulnerable to corruption.

A stock chart is often used or prepared to track movements in the stock market. The same can be used by the Met department to highlight fluctuations in the daily temperatures. Usually a stock chart comprises of 3 or 4 columns, if the number of column exceeds, then it might become corrupt. The above error message surfaces when your Word 2007 document contains a corrupt stock chart.

Resolution

In the above situation, it become quite difficult to perform Word recovery using normal strategies, but you must try the following steps:

1. Insert the corrupt document as a file in another or Word new document
2. Alternatively, you can bank upon the 'Recover Text From Any File' converter option to recover text (without formatting) from the corrupt Word document
3. In order to perform absolute recovery, you must rely on a third-party Word repair software.

To recover Word documents in a safe manner, you must download and use Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery. This application repairs corrupt Word documents and restores all components like text, graphics, charts etc. Compatible with Microsoft Word 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000 versions, this Word recovery comes embedded with simple and graphical user interface.

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