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TUAW Tips: Open .docx files with Office 2004
If you haven't yet upgraded to Microsoft Office 2008, you're probably intimately familiar with the problem of receiving Office 2008 .docx (Word 2008) files; they're not natively supported by Office 2004. If you have updated that older version of Office to 11.5.0 and installed the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac, you'll be able to open .docx files in Word 2004.Both the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.0 Update Package and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac are available for free. Another way that you can resolve the .docx dilemma is to use Zamzar's online file converter (see screenshot below) to downgrade the .docx file to the .doc format. Choose the .docx file, select the file format (.doc) that you wish to convert the file to, enter your email address so that Zamzar can send the converted file to you, and then click the Convert button. You'll receive the converted file shortly.
This tip comes to you via Jenny Kortina over at The Apple Blog.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
WS said 6:54PM on 9-03-2008
iWork '08 also supports the new Office filetypes (docx, pptx, etc.)
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Justin said 8:14PM on 9-03-2008
Or you could just open them in Pages...
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Jenny said 10:09PM on 9-03-2008
It's Kortina with a "K" not a "C" Good tip though ;)
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Josh said 12:05AM on 9-04-2008
I didn't realize you guys got paid to copy and paste from other blogs.
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Daniel Schneller said 2:24AM on 9-04-2008
Am I the only one not liking the idea of uploading possibly private information to a remote system?
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marc cardwell said 9:41AM on 9-04-2008
neo office opens these .docx files. it's free and i don't have ms office on my mac anymore. yeah.
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Joey said 10:17AM on 9-04-2008
I think I've actually gotten it to work by just removing the x from the extension. Maybe I'm not remembering correctly, but I'm pretty sure that works too.
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Tom said 9:07AM on 11-29-2008
Or just use http://www.docx2doc.com to save docx as doc or pdf among other formats
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