diff --git a/docs/changes/1.x/1.2.0.md b/docs/changes/1.x/1.2.0.md
index d65f27490b..1b8e1daea9 100644
--- a/docs/changes/1.x/1.2.0.md
+++ b/docs/changes/1.x/1.2.0.md
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 - Fixed PHP 8.2 deprecated about Allow access to an undefined property by [@DAdq26](https://github.com/DAdq26) in GH-2440
 - Template Processor : Fixed choose dimention for Float Value by [@gdevilbat](https://github.com/gdevilbat) in GH-2449
 - HTML Parser : Fix image parsing from url without extension by [@JokubasR](https://github.com/JokubasR) in GH-2459
+- Word2007 Reader : Fixed reading of Office365 DocX file by [@filippotoso](https://github.com/filippotoso) & [@lfglopes](https://github.com/lfglopes) in [#2506](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/pull/2506)
 
 ### Miscellaneous
 
diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Shared/XMLReader.php b/src/PhpWord/Shared/XMLReader.php
index c508b3d320..1c95a64426 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Shared/XMLReader.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Shared/XMLReader.php
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ public function getDomFromZip($zipFile, $xmlFile)
 
         $zip = new ZipArchive();
         $zip->open($zipFile);
-        $content = $zip->getFromName($xmlFile);
+        $content = $zip->getFromName(ltrim($xmlFile, '/'));
         $zip->close();
 
         if ($content === false) {
diff --git a/tests/PhpWordTests/Shared/XMLReaderTest.php b/tests/PhpWordTests/Shared/XMLReaderTest.php
index 9ba8e4548b..4cbe92a5e2 100644
--- a/tests/PhpWordTests/Shared/XMLReaderTest.php
+++ b/tests/PhpWordTests/Shared/XMLReaderTest.php
@@ -58,6 +58,21 @@ public function testDomFromZip(): void
         self::assertFalse($reader->getDomFromZip($archiveFile, 'non_existing_xml_file.xml'));
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Office 365 add some slash before the path of XML file.
+     */
+    public function testDomFromZipOffice365(): void
+    {
+        $archiveFile = __DIR__ . '/../_files/xml/reader.zip';
+
+        $reader = new XMLReader();
+        $reader->getDomFromZip($archiveFile, '/test.xml');
+
+        self::assertTrue($reader->elementExists('/element/child'));
+
+        self::assertFalse($reader->getDomFromZip($archiveFile, 'non_existing_xml_file.xml'));
+    }
+
     /**
      * Test that read from non existing archive throws exception.
      */