So I am working with Word version 2016. I've inserted several bookmarks and cross-references without issue, but for some reason Word keeps giving me an error when I cross-reference the date bookmark.

So I can go through the document, bookmark the date, cross-reference the date, and it works fine. Then when I close the document and open it again, all of the bookmarks and references stay except the date bookmark and cross-references. Word will also give me the error message everytime I open it with "We're sorry. We can't open DOC because we found a problem with its contents" Details - Unspecified error. Location: Part: /word/document/xml, line: o, Column: o" Granted I can move forward and still open it, but the date bookmark and cross-references are gone.

The only thing I can think of is I did mess with the format of the date so instead of it being xx/xx/xxxx it would say something like month day, year. But that was before I bookmarked it (I think so, anyway?), so I have no idea why it is being finicky with the date and nothing else.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you!