I have a fairly long document (about 360 pages, approx. 2 MB in size) with hundreds, if not thousands, of tracked changes by several different reviewers. I would very much like to hide some of the reviewers’ changes and show only those made by one particular reviewer, but unfortunately the document seems to be somehow corrupt.
On a Windows machine, I can open the document and edit it just fine, but whenever I go to Review -> Markup Options -> Reviewers, the entire application grinds to a halt and crashes before even showing the list of reviewers.
On a Mac, I can’t even open the document—it crashes both Word (2011 and 2016), OpenOffice, and LibreOffice.
I’ve tried saving the .docx file as a .zip file and having a look through its contents like that, but the resulting document.xml file is quite big (about 37 MB) and strains the XML readers I have available to the point that reading through it manually is not a practical option. At least I’ve been able to ascertain that document.xml is valid XML (or rather: browsers and XML readers don’t complain that it isn’t).
Is there some way of figuring out exactly what in a Word document has been corrupted, without losing all the tracked changes that are in the document?
