Convert docx file to Word
Jan 5, 2009 | 10:57 am
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Convert docx file to Word
Mac users - help?
My 'vista friends' keeping sending me word documents in docx format and I can't read them. I'm still running Microsoft Office 2004. Is there a solid conversion utility application out there - tried to do a search on versiontracker.com without much luck....
google turned up this shareware: docXConverter (for Mac OS X) 3.1
Thanks
My 'vista friends' keeping sending me word documents in docx format and I can't read them. I'm still running Microsoft Office 2004. Is there a solid conversion utility application out there - tried to do a search on versiontracker.com without much luck....
google turned up this shareware: docXConverter (for Mac OS X) 3.1
Thanks
Jan 5, 2009 | 11:06 am
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try this from microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx
and if the link doesn't download, here is a link from versiontracker.com
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32498
also, if all else fails, if you are running leopard, TextEdit s/b able to open a word 2007 .docx.zip file and save it as word 97, word 2003 or back as a word 2007 docx file
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx
and if the link doesn't download, here is a link from versiontracker.com
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32498
also, if all else fails, if you are running leopard, TextEdit s/b able to open a word 2007 .docx.zip file and save it as word 97, word 2003 or back as a word 2007 docx file
Jan 5, 2009 | 11:12 am
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Free OpenOffice 3 will read, but not write .docx
You may be able to use OpenOffice instead of the whole MS Office suite, though this varies by the person's requirements
You may be able to use OpenOffice instead of the whole MS Office suite, though this varies by the person's requirements
Jan 5, 2009 | 11:19 am
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Or, if you only need to read the files, they could send them to you as PDFs. I do that all the time when I send Excel files to people who don't use Excel.