More often you receive a email attachment or project with a .docx file extension and you can’t open docx file using MS Word ? Actually DOCX is a new document format from Microsoft built for Microsoft word 2007 which means .docx files cannot be opened with other MS word versions and can be viewed only if you have Microsoft word 2007 installed.When the documents are saved in MS word 2007,a .docx file extension is appended to the filename by default.
The difference between .doc files and .docx files is a letter “x” indicating the new .docx format supports open XML standard which was developed by Microsoft for MS Office 2007 product.
For Opening .docx Files
Docx Format Supported Word - There are plenty of options to open docx files,one way is to download a free Microsoft Compatibility Pack which will allow upgrade your MS word to support viewing docx file.You can download Microsoft Compatibility pack from here.
Convert Docx to Doc file – Using a free online converter that converts .docx file to .doc file you can open and view the content inside the file using the default installed MS word.One such free converter is Zam zar.
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People aren’t stating the proper term for what is ticking them off. Word is backwards-compatible. It’s FORWARDS COMPATIBILITY that is causing people trouble. A document that is 100% forwards-compatible means that even if the file format changes in the future, older versions of the software can still read some or all of it.
Needless to say, it’s pretty hard to design forwards-compatible formats. Clearly, DOCX and related “X” formats are not forwards-compatible extensions of the previous OLE2 organization that dominated the early 00′s. The header is completely different, too.
thanks for these great tips. I am so glad i was able to convert my file without paying. this is such a helpful article.
People (liberals?) whining about Microsoft and Wal-Mart. But yet they love their Priuses, Mac, and whatever else. Grow up.
I love Windows and shop a Wal-Mart Supercenter weekly.
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Data: “Do you object to the question?”
Well, I have Open Office, so how do I use it to open a docx file?
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Does anyone know how to convert a docx document back to a doc document before I attach it? Thanks
I have no issues openning DOCX files as I use OPENOFFICE. No compatibility problems nor upgrades AT all. Thank god we have alternatives to M$. I mean Come on, why download extra upgrade files for a product of the same Office family, and just to open a simple XML format??
Or just convert docx to the old doc format at docx2doc
Let me ammend my other post.
Its not ‘closed binary’. What docx is is a ‘zipped’ set of files that are an XML collection. So it is possible to do data mining and pa*** the contents by running the file through winzip or on a unix system via “unzip -pa myfile.docx | “… to something like grep or whatever processor will pa*** the resulting text stream.
My Word 2003 version supports writing and reading docx files with whatever patches have been applied to this point to the software. While Word 2003 may not support docx out of the box, a software patch or toolkit install does allow it to read and write docx files.
If this docx format is a way to allow Word 2007 users to save thier documents so users of older versions of Word can work with the documents, great.. as it will break that crazy cycle of constantly having to upgrade all versions of office as soon as one key person in your work group upgrades theirs.
Open, the format is not. Its still a binary format and not at all an XML file, so on its face, its useless to me. I’ll stick with the binary DOC files for general use and XML files when I need the documents to be processed by 3rd party data processing tools for data mining purposes.
Backwards compatibility means a seemless transition. Therefore, any Microsoft Office 2007 document should readily open with earlier versions. How can this be so if any form of conversion is required?
Why do people hate Microsoft so much? Microsoft made docx backwards compatible. That is what this article is about.
Also, Microsoft makes everything backwards compatible. Try running a dos program or a win 98 program in Vista. It works.
Apple the beloved child, has spotty backward compatibility, but nobody complains. They just target Microsoft.
It is quite lonely at the top.
Why would anyone allow themselves to be subjected to Microsoft’s abuse? The only possible reason I can think of is that they are unaware of alternatives.
i hate when MS creates new stuff… they make them non backwards compatible all the time :grr: nice tools!