When trying to open a .DOCX file in Word 2013 I receive the following error message:
“there was an error opening the file.”
What can be causing this to happen?
Error when trying to open a .docx file
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Re: Error when trying to open a .docx file
Try LibreOffice, it may be able to open this damaged file.
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