How can I open a docx file ?

[Lucas CAV]

Can anyone point me in the direction of a way of reading a docx file?

pref. online as I can't really download any software.

[judas]

http://docx-converter.com/

Google's really useful for this kind of stuff you know

[Puggit]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=docx+file

[RizzoTheRat]

It's MS office 2007. Belive there's a plugin available for older versions of office, bit if not get back to the originator and ask them to save it in the older version format.

[Mr E]

Had this recently. Opened it in open office and saved it as a PDF.

[Lucas CAV]

Puggit said:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=docx+file

seriously - what is the point of this?

googling it produces lots of results -- none of which have i had much success yet.

[Muntu]

Get it from Microsoft, you can be sure that it has no added "extras"

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa...

[Lucas CAV]

judas said:

http://docx-converter.com/

Google's really useful for this kind of stuff you know

ok mr sarcastic -- v useful but I need to read it not wait an unspecified amount of time for it to be sent to me

[Hammer67]

Muntu said:

Get it from Microsoft, you can be sure that it has no added "extras"

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa...

Thanks from Mrs H67, saved her a trip into work over Xmas. Good man.

[Ray Singh]

anonymous said:

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+1 or ask a freind to open it on MS office 2007 and save as a doc file.

[judas]

Lucas CAV said:

judas said:

http://docx-converter.com/

Google's really useful for this kind of stuff you know

ok mr sarcastic -- v useful but I need to read it not wait an unspecified amount of time for it to be sent to me

Oooh, :handbag:

I usually get stuff back within minutes. If that's not fast enough you're on your own...

[ymwoods]

anonymous said:

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This does work in some situations but if some of the recent features in 2007 have been used (which the older versions do not support, hence the file change...plus some other reasons that I won't get into) then you will find only the normal text etc will come out ok, the rest will be covered in ascii characters (the boxes and weird symbols)

[simba1]

Lucas CAV said:

Can anyone point me in the direction of a way of reading a docx file?

pref. online as I can't really download any software.

open office 3.1 will open it. free download and use. http://www.openoffice.org/[url]

[Muntu]

simba1 said:

Lucas CAV said:

Can anyone point me in the direction of a way of reading a docx file?

pref. online as I can't really download any software.

open office 3.1 will open it. free download and use. http://www.openoffice.org/[url]

FFS people, just use the software that Microsoft provide for doing it, in my link above.

[telecat]

Just for clarification the links to Microsoft are referring to the "Office compatibility pack". This updates Office 2003 etc to read documents created in Office 2007. As this covers Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc it pretty much cuts the need to update to 2007.

[mmm-five]

telecat said:

Just for clarification the links to Microsoft are referring to the "Office compatibility pack". This updates Office 2003 etc to read documents created in Office 2007. As this covers Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc it pretty much cuts the need to update to 2007.

The only things it doesn't work on are elements that use Office 2007/2008 only elements - such as some of the new fancy diagrams, table shadows, shape effects, etc which are rendered as uneditable PNGs when you open them in a older version.

Some of my clients with Office 2000/2003 also have had their apps crash when trying to view these converted documents (tends to be due to the table shadows) - although I do ask them before I start work what format they're happy with and you'd probably not be surprised to learn that most simply state "we're using the 'latest' version" - until I specifically ask them if they're using 2007 and they claim to have both versions available. It's only when they start having problems that they look carefully and notice they've got 2003 or 2000.

[telecat]

mmm-five said:

telecat said:

Just for clarification the links to Microsoft are referring to the "Office compatibility pack". This updates Office 2003 etc to read documents created in Office 2007. As this covers Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc it pretty much cuts the need to update to 2007.

The only things it doesn't work on are elements that use Office 2007/2008 only elements - such as some of the new fancy diagrams, table shadows, shape effects, etc which are rendered as uneditable PNGs when you open them in a older version.

Some of my clients with Office 2000/2003 also have had their apps crash when trying to view these converted documents (tends to be due to the table shadows) - although I do ask them before I start work what format they're happy with and you'd probably not be surprised to learn that most simply state "we're using the 'latest' version" - until I specifically ask them if they're using 2007 and they claim to have both versions available. It's only when they start having problems that they look carefully and notice they've got 2003 or 2000.

Doesn't surprise me, after all I have friends convinced their Computer was running on Windows 7 because they had Internet Explorer 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lestag]

Also
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891090
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925180/en-us

if you don't have microsoft word/excel etc
MS have viewers available for most of their prodicts.