[Graham Mayor]

Yes - that would work.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Arlene wrote:
Thanks, Tony. Do you mean save it as a Word 07 file then right-click
and use a third-party program like WinZip?

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

A .docx file *is* a zip file and some combination of host and
browser, in attempting to protect you from malice, has determined
this and presented it with a .zip suffix.

The easiest way I find is to zip the .docx file so that it becomes a
zip within a zip. When the downloaded zip file is opened, the .docx
file inside it is presented properly.

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Enjoy,
Tony

www.WordArticles.com

"Arlene" wrote in message
...
Thank you so much for the links. Bottom line and easiest resolution
after experimenting seems to be to rename the file name extension
from docx to doc
to get the file to download in one step and open directly in Word
2007. However, changing the extension to doc does not make it
compatible with Word
2003 and it will not open in Word 2003 just because the extension
has been changed. Another workaround would be in Word 2007 to do a
Save As to save as
a *doc file and then it would download in one step and open in
either Word 2003 or Word 2007. Did I get it right?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

As usual in such a situation, I turned to Google (as I know this
has been discussed). I searched for ".docx .zip," and,
interestingly, many of the hits on the first page were answers to
your question!

There's an article at
http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/0...ntling-a-docx/ that
talks a little about this. There's a more technical discussion at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa982683.aspx. The bottom
line is that the .docx format combines several components in a
wrapper similar to a
..zip archive. If you rename the .docx as .zip, you can open it
with WinZip
or the like and extract the separate components, which allows you
to edit the XML directly. At this point, I've told you more than I
actually understand, so you're on your own from here!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Arlene" wrote in message
...
That did it. Thanks. I know Word very well, but I've never heard
anyone say
that a docx file is a zip file. Is there any article you can
recommend that
will explain this a bit more? I've posted other docx files without
issue.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

As I understand it, a .docx file *is* a .zip file. If you just
change the
file extension, you should be able to open it normally.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"JoAnn Paules" wrote in message
...
It could be something that the host site does for files over a
certain
size. Did you ask them?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



"Arlene" wrote in message
...
I posted a very large file saved as a *.docx file in Word
2007. When the
hyperlink to download, open/save the file is clicked, the file
shows
up
as a
*.zip file and cannot be opened. The File Download window has
this message:
Do you want to open or save this file? Name:
WSR_Speech_Module.zip; Type:
Compressed (zipped) Folders, 5.78MB.

You can find the file at
http://gdpkeyboarding.com/Enrichment...rd2 007_Vista
under the link
http://gdpkeyboarding.com/WordFilesO...ch_Module.docx.
Thanks
in
advance.