Meaning of extension ".docx" in MS Word 2007"
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From: sheana on 29 Mar 2010 07:03 Hi, I have MS Word 2007 and Windows 7. Can you tell me what the extension ".docx" means when I save a document? I always saw only the ".doc" extension in previous versions. Thanks in advance.
From: Doug Robbins - Word MVP on 29 Mar 2010 07:23 docx denotes that the file is in Word 2007 file format; docm denotes that the file is in Word 2007 format and that it contains macros. A docx format file cannot contain macros. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "sheana" <sheana(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:B4079CBA-DDD9-4BDA-91B4-D18519902B4D(a)microsoft.com... > Hi, > > I have MS Word 2007 and Windows 7. Can you tell me what the extension > ".docx" means when I save a document? I always saw only the ".doc" > extension in previous versions. Thanks in advance.
From: Yves Dhondt on 29 Mar 2010 07:32 It's a new file format. ".docx" files are basically zip archives (you can change .docx to .zip and open the files in Windows) containing a bunch of xml files. The advantage of the ".docx" format is that it implements the 'open xml' standard (both ECMA and ISO certified). This is important as governments world wide are starting to ask for open standards for documents. The new format also has some advantages for programmers: they make it much easier to create and manipulate Office documents without user interaction. Also, as ".docx" files are actually zip archives, they tend to require less disk space. As it is a new format, older versions of Word are not automatically capable of handling the newer files. To solve this issue, Microsoft released a compatibility pack so that the new file formats can be used by older products. However, there are still a lot of people out there who use Word 2003 or earlier and who haven't installed the pack. So if you frequently exchange files with people using Word 2003 or earlier, you might want to consider saving your documents in the old ".doc" format. If not, ".docx" is the way to go. Yves "sheana" <sheana(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:B4079CBA-DDD9-4BDA-91B4-D18519902B4D(a)microsoft.com... > Hi, > > I have MS Word 2007 and Windows 7. Can you tell me what the extension > ".docx" means when I save a document? I always saw only the ".doc" > extension in previous versions. Thanks in advance.
From: Robert Macy on 29 Mar 2010 11:10 On Mar 29, 4:32 am, "Yves Dhondt" <yves.dho...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's a new file format. ".docx" files are basically zip archives (you can > change .docx to .zip and open the files in Windows) containing a bunch of > xml files. > > The advantage of the ".docx" format is that it implements the 'open xml' > standard (both ECMA and ISO certified). This is important as governments > world wide are starting to ask for open standards for documents. The new > format also has some advantages for programmers: they make it much easier to > create and manipulate Office documents without user interaction. Also, as > ".docx" files are actually zip archives, they tend to require less disk > space. > > As it is a new format, older versions of Word are not automatically capable > of handling the newer files. To solve this issue, Microsoft released a > compatibility pack so that the new file formats can be used by older > products. However, there are still a lot of people out there who use Word > 2003 or earlier and who haven't installed the pack. So if you frequently > exchange files with people using Word 2003 or earlier, you might want to > consider saving your documents in the old ".doc" format. If not, ".docx" is > the way to go. > > Yves > > "sheana" <she...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in message > > news:B4079CBA-DDD9-4BDA-91B4-D18519902B4D(a)microsoft.com... > > > > > Hi, > > > I have MS Word 2007 and Windows 7. Can you tell me what the extension > > ".docx" means when I save a document? I always saw only the ".doc" > > extension in previous versions. Thanks in advance. this works also: Program Name: NW Docx File Converter (Docx2Rtf) Author: Jack Lewis - NativeWinds Creation: 2007-10-03 Updated: 2009-06-04 Version: 3.8 Freeware Description: A program to convert Word 2007 Docx and Dotx, OpenOffice Sxw and Odt files to the universal rtf format without needing MS Office 2007 or OpenOffice installed. Docx2Rtf can also open, view and print - pdf, html, rtf, txt files and now even PalmOS Database Documents (*.pdb) and Aportis (*.prc) files are supported. and google provides free conversion for docx to doc and xlsx to xls files
From: sheana on 30 Mar 2010 08:45
Can you tell me what I have to do to have Google provide file conversion for ..docx to .doc? Or does it do this automatically? Thanks in advance. "Robert Macy" <macy(a)california.com> wrote in message news:c2b593c5-22bf-4cd0-9b78-3ab92cceb733(a)z35g2000yqd.googlegroups.com... > On Mar 29, 4:32 am, "Yves Dhondt" <yves.dho...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> It's a new file format. ".docx" files are basically zip archives (you can >> change .docx to .zip and open the files in Windows) containing a bunch of >> xml files. >> >> The advantage of the ".docx" format is that it implements the 'open xml' >> standard (both ECMA and ISO certified). This is important as governments >> world wide are starting to ask for open standards for documents. The new >> format also has some advantages for programmers: they make it much easier >> to >> create and manipulate Office documents without user interaction. Also, as >> ".docx" files are actually zip archives, they tend to require less disk >> space. >> >> As it is a new format, older versions of Word are not automatically >> capable >> of handling the newer files. To solve this issue, Microsoft released a >> compatibility pack so that the new file formats can be used by older >> products. However, there are still a lot of people out there who use Word >> 2003 or earlier and who haven't installed the pack. So if you frequently >> exchange files with people using Word 2003 or earlier, you might want to >> consider saving your documents in the old ".doc" format. If not, ".docx" >> is >> the way to go. >> >> Yves >> >> "sheana" <she...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in message >> >> news:B4079CBA-DDD9-4BDA-91B4-D18519902B4D(a)microsoft.com... >> >> >> >> > Hi, >> >> > I have MS Word 2007 and Windows 7. Can you tell me what the extension >> > ".docx" means when I save a document? I always saw only the ".doc" >> > extension in previous versions. Thanks in advance. > > this works also: > > Program Name: NW Docx File Converter (Docx2Rtf) > Author: Jack Lewis - NativeWinds > Creation: 2007-10-03 > Updated: 2009-06-04 > Version: 3.8 Freeware > > Description: A program to convert Word 2007 Docx and Dotx, > OpenOffice Sxw and Odt files > to the universal rtf format without needing MS Office > 2007 or OpenOffice > installed. Docx2Rtf can also open, view and print - > pdf, html, rtf, txt files and now > even PalmOS Database Documents (*.pdb) and Aportis > (*.prc) files are supported. > > > and google provides free conversion for docx to doc and xlsx to xls > files |