Unable to open a word document in SharePoint 2013

Dear all,
We are using SharePoint Foundation 2013 with Office Word 2010. Uploading an updating a document in SharePoint generally works fine.
We have a word document uploaded to SP on which we work a lot. I uploaded it yesterday and continued to work on the document. This morning when I wanted to open the document I get the message from Word: "Could not open 'http://xxxxxxxxx/sites/documents/General/document.docx'
(where xxxx is the name of the server).
This is the second time that we have this issue.
Except this message there is nothing on SharePoint log site.
Best, Jeppen
Jeppen Twitter: @DoSTHGreat

Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately these post do not help.
Strange thing is that we can work again with the document.
I forgot to mention that the "Download a Copy" always worked.
Jeppen Twitter: @DoSTHGreat

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