Corrupted word doc - document.xml corrupted

Word document containing full semester uni work of my friend. She had NO backups and file was kept on USB key (hard to believe but true).
I tried renaming as .zip and extracting the document.xml - no luck.
tried hex editor to see if I could see any text - nothing.
I'm not interested in recovering the images in the file (got those ok). Just need the text if possible. (or point me to tools which might work?)
Thank you very much.

It had a PK zip signature at the beginning of the file which is why I tried 7-zip. I looked at another 'docx' file and it did too. I didn't realize that 'docx' files were also zipped.
I had the same problem with 'document.xml' but the other 'xml' files seemed to open fine. I couldn't extract or view 'document.xml'.
Try to look at the answer here:
http://www.filerepairforum.com/forum/microsoft/microsoft-aa/word/919-office-documents-randomly-corrupting-possible-malware-issue
Or:
Word Repair Kit
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