http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/10/ways-to-open-office-docx-documents/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/10/ways-to-open-office-docx-documents/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:47:04 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/10/ways-to-open-office-docx-documents/ How do I open .docx files was an article that I wrote some time ago. It explained how users that did not use Microsoft Office 2007 were able to open .docx documents that they downloaded or received from users who were using Office 2007. Some time has passed since writing the initial article and I thought it would be nice to take a look at more methods and programs that let users open. docx documents.

The best suited method to open .docx documents depends largely on your computer system. Are you using a Macintosh, Linux or Windows ? Do you have an old version of Microsoft Office installed ? What’s the purpose of opening the docx document, do you only want to read it or do you have to edit it as well ?

The best way for Windows users who have a version of Microsoft Office installed is to install the Microsoft compatibility pack for previous Office versions that adds .docx support in Microsoft Word.

The best approach for users that do not use Microsoft Office, including Mac and Linux users, would be to use one of the several online converters that convert docx files into doc.

Windows users could also download the Word Viewer application from Microsoft that opens .docx documents properly but cannot alter them.

Last but not least it is possible to use the OpenOffice. OpenXML Translator to open docx documents if you have the Novell version of Open Office installed. I did not test it with the normal Open Office application, if someone did please mention if it succeeded in the comments.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/10/ways-to-open-office-docx-documents/feed/ 45 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/11/open-office-and-docx/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/11/open-office-and-docx/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:17:05 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/11/open-office-and-docx/ Microsoft Office 2007 uses a new standard to save documents. You might have noticed that the documents saved are no longer named document.doc but document.docx. While this is not per se a problem for users with Office 2007 it is a major one for everyone else.

Microsoft released a compatibility patch for older Office versions which adds the functionality to those products but those who rely on Open Office for instance are facing a huge problem. Because, at the moment, Open Office does not support the docx format at all. If you open it you will only see lots of unreadable garbage.

Users have a few possibilities though. They can use the updated Word Viewer from the Microsoft website and use it to open the docx document. This document can then be copied and pasted into Open Office.

Another possibility would be to use the free online service called docx converter which converts docx documents into doc format readable by Open Office.

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