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SAP produces xxx.wordcontainer files from MS Word documents. Is it possible to recover and further work on the word document from these .wordcontainer files

  • outside and independent from SAP
  • on Linux or Windows (or in theory Android)
  • preferably with free software, (or using software usually available independent from specialization, e.g. MS office)?

When I rename such a file to xxx.zip, 7zip opens it and shows folders (Macros, ObjectPool...) und files (Data, WordDocument...). I cannot open any of these with MS word, but I can open WordDocument with standard editor as plain text only, and it seems to contain word document content. WordDocument is not a zipped structure itself (cannot open it after renaming to .zip).

I'd like to recover the formatted word document.

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Most probably these files were produced in some standard SAP control like SAP Document Container or some else. Usually they are normal doc files but with another extension.

It is a usual (weird) SAP practice to name file with some content (csv, xls) with a wrong extension.

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