Beginning with Office 2007, Microsoft unveiled a new file format, called Open XML, which uses the .docx extensionbut isn't compatible with older versions of Office without some assistance. Here ...

Tired of Word docs you can't open with your older version of Office? Here are three free paths to total compatibility.

DocX Viewer gives you the ability to open, view, and print files in DOCX format, even if you don't have an up-to-date version of Word. When you open a file in this app, you can also copy and paste ...

Salmela’s Automator action converts a DOCX file into a PDF from the right-click menu, making it a lot easier to convert the file, then open it up.

While admittedly it’s not as simple as it is on macOS to open a .docx file using Pages, here's how to open, edit and even re-export .pages files on a Windows PC.

Copy the file sideways, rename .docx to .zip. Open in your .zip program, extract the data (.xml files), and open in notepad. You may be able to get the data, but loose formatting.<BR><BR>If you ...

Manual expansion/stripping As such, one brute alternative for extracting data under Mac OS X is to change the .docx extension of a received Office 2007 document to .zip, (e.g. file.docx to file ...

“If you rename a .docx file to .zip you can open it,” tweets SwiftOnSecurity, the security professional/Taylor Swift parody account. Then you can grab images and video that were embedded in ...