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How to convert docx to doc without Microsoft Word 2007
Suppose, your client just emailed a Microsoft Word 2007 document ending with a .docx extension but you have no clue about how to open and print the file or convert from docx to .doc and other text formats. No worries, here's are some very simple solutions on handling .docx file when you don't have Microsoft Office Word 2007.
The .docx files, which are now the default file extension in Microsoft Word 2007, are essentially a bunch of zipped XML documents - you can even rename the file extension from .docx to .zip and then extract the file contents using Winzip or some other decompression tools.
In order to convert .docx documents to .doc format, just download the free Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack from here. This will help you open, print, edit and save .docx files in Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003.
And if you are on Mac, you can get the Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac here - this converts .docx to .rtf (rich text format) files which can be viewed in Office for Mac and other Mac word processors. It is also possible to open and edit a .docx file in OpenOffice or StarOffice using the free Open XML Translator from SourceForge which converts .docx Word documents to .odf and vice versa.
The Word 2007 docx format is currently not supported by GMail Word viewer or Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
Source : Digital Inspiration
The .docx files, which are now the default file extension in Microsoft Word 2007, are essentially a bunch of zipped XML documents - you can even rename the file extension from .docx to .zip and then extract the file contents using Winzip or some other decompression tools.
In order to convert .docx documents to .doc format, just download the free Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack from here. This will help you open, print, edit and save .docx files in Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003.And if you are on Mac, you can get the Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac here - this converts .docx to .rtf (rich text format) files which can be viewed in Office for Mac and other Mac word processors. It is also possible to open and edit a .docx file in OpenOffice or StarOffice using the free Open XML Translator from SourceForge which converts .docx Word documents to .odf and vice versa.
The Word 2007 docx format is currently not supported by GMail Word viewer or Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
Source : Digital Inspiration
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There are some online conversion tools for this as well. For $5 USD you get unlimited number of conversions at http://www.docx2doc.com/ . This site does a good job converting most documents including all formatting etc.
If you just want text-extraction you could use http://docx-converter.com
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OpenOffice 2.4 has support for docx so you Linux users can happily read and write to this format.
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When I create .docx using Open XML SDK provided by Microsoft, the compatibility pack does not work. I'm using a .docx template and programmatically fill data. The filled in data is not visible through Word 2003 with compatibility pack, but it shows correctly in Word 2007
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It is not working in XML. What method to use????? I agree with zip rename but what to do with all xml? I need the text :(
All those converters works partially. We have complex spec sheets we produce for lighting components with graphic, table, formated text, columns, header, footer, etc.
The only way of getting out of all that shit has been to just drop Office altogether and replace by Open Office which use a real standard and open file format: OpenDOC.
M$ wants you to believe DocX is an open standard, it's totally FALSE! It's been 3 generations we fight with the M$ crippled and proprietary file format, that's ENOUGH.
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Linux users using OpenOffice.org-2.4.1 may have to install the OdfConverter before OOo can convert docx to odt.
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Before I saw this I was assuming I couldn't open 2007 files sent to me. Works perfectly. Well done!
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Thanks for this but I am facing a problem at my site. I have few Windows 2000 Pro machine, the conversion software runs good on Windows XP but on Windows 2000 it just runs in Administrator Login, if we provide users even local admin rights even then it is not converting the doc.
Please provide the solution.
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Hope you can help, I downloaded Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. now what, no directions, don't see any difference in any Word menus. opened my docx file to convert to my 2003 and got binary code. don't see anyway to do another conversion. how do you run the converter once you've installed it. help. this is a recommendation Letter for my wife that one of here professors gave her. I'm gettin tired of emailing people to resend there letters back in 2003 version. thanks
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