How can I open a docx file ?

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Lucas CAV

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3,021 posts

218 months

Thursday 24th December 2009
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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

5,963 posts

258 months

Thursday 24th December 2009
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http://docx-converter.com/

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

Puggit

48,355 posts

247 months

Thursday 24th December 2009
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RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Thursday 24th December 2009
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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

21,583 posts

258 months

Thursday 24th December 2009
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Had this recently. Opened it in open office and saved it as a PDF.

Lucas CAV

Original Poster:

3,021 posts

218 months

Thursday 24th December 2009
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Puggit said:
seriously - what is the point of this?

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


Muntu

7,631 posts

198 months

Thursday 24th December 2009
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Get it from Microsoft, you can be sure that it has no added "extras"

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

Lucas CAV

Original Poster:

3,021 posts

218 months

Thursday 24th December 2009
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judas said:
http://docx-converter.com/

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

5,706 posts

183 months

Thursday 24th December 2009
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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

3,045 posts

229 months

Thursday 24th December 2009
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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

5,963 posts

258 months

Friday 25th December 2009
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Lucas CAV said:
judas said:
http://docx-converter.com/

Google's really useful for this kind of stuff you know wink
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: tongue out

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


ymwoods

2,177 posts

176 months

Friday 25th December 2009
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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

547 posts

199 months

Friday 25th December 2009
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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

7,631 posts

198 months

Friday 25th December 2009
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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

8,528 posts

240 months

Saturday 26th December 2009
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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

11,227 posts

283 months

Saturday 26th December 2009
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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

8,528 posts

240 months

Sunday 27th December 2009
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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

4,614 posts

275 months

Sunday 27th December 2009
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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.