Wouldn’t open a one page .doc or .docx page

I needed to store the files in a subdirectory of the themes root directory. For whatever reason, embedanydoc wouldn’t open the file.

In the plugin’s setup, there needs to be an option to pick the directory where docs will be stored. When we migrate, we can’t go back through hundreds, maybe thousands of pages changing the url in these shortcodes. Comment box won’t let me enter the actual url so I put in “|” pipe symbols in place of backslashes and changed “http:” to “htxp”: here to illustrate.
[embeddoc url=”htxp:||gbbs2.local|wp-content|themes|groupbigbookstudy|docs|Title-Page-GBBS.docx” viewer=”microsoft”]

embedanydoc reports the error, “An error occurred. We’re sorry, but for some reason we can’t open this for you.” But, there’s no explanation, no clue, and no way to find the problem.