Getting "An item with the same key has already been added" error in relation to one Word file when creating a new project in SDL Studio 2021, file-based TMs

Question

No matter which SDL Project Template I use, with one Word file (.docx) that I am wanting to translation, during the process "Convert to Translatable Format" in Studio 2021 (SDL Trados Studio 2021 SR1 - 16.1.3.4096), I always get the "An item with the same key has already been added" error. Is there anything I can do to the Word document to allow me to get past this point?

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[edited by: Michael Bailey at 11:22 AM (GMT 0) on 4 Mar 2022]

Paul · Accepted Answer

Michael Bailey 
 Michael Bailey said: I have a little macro for Word that carves up documents into chunks of 500 words that I was about to let loose on it! 
 Interesting approach... I'd stick with the simple manually splitting. It's remarkably quick no matter the size of the original document.

Paul · Answer

Michael Bailey 
 Perhaps the solution is to divide and conquer... at least in terms of getting to the root of the problem. Split the file, test each half and then repeat with the failed half. Repeat this until you are able to identify something in the file causing the problem or maybe a sentence or a paragraph that you could omit and finish manually outside of Trados Studio. 
 It's normally pretty fast to do this, but you could also share the file and we can take a look? If we can repro we can also log a bug.

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Getting "An item with the same key has already been added" error in relation to one Word file when creating a new project in SDL Studio 2021, file-based TMs

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