[Viv]

I received an email with an attachment with a file extention of docX and
cannot read it. Any suggestions?

[Angel Bivins]

Viv,
Save that file from your email to your desktop. Then right-click on the
file name and choose rename. Change the file extention to either .txt or
..html.
--
Angel Bivins
WordAngel Document Design
www.wordangel.com


"Viv" wrote:

I received an email with an attachment with a file extention of docX and
cannot read it. Any suggestions?

[JoAnn Paules]

That means it's a Word 2007 file. Download the compatibility pack and you'll
be fine. Then give the sender the dickens for not doing a Save As and using
the older format.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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"Viv" wrote in message
...
I received an email with an attachment with a file extention of docX and
cannot read it. Any suggestions?

[Perry B]

"JoAnn Paules" wrote:

That means it's a Word 2007 file. Download the compatibility pack and you'll
be fine. Then give the sender the dickens for not doing a Save As and using
the older format.

"Viv" wrote in message
...
I received an email with an attachment with a file extention of docX and
cannot read it. Any suggestions?


Is it true, then, that if you have a version of Word that is pre- Office
2003 you cannot read a docx file? Or that MS has not provided any patch or
add-on to read these filetypes?

That would hardly make Word 2007 an 'open' product! Is there a way for
someone still running Win98 and Word 97 to read these files?

Perry B

[Graham Mayor]

Users of Office 2002 and 2000 should be OK
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...686761033.aspx
Microsoft no longer supports 97 and makes no reference to it. Word 2007 is
more than capable of producing compatible output with these older products,
so complain to whoever sent you the email.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



Perry B wrote:
"JoAnn Paules" wrote:

That means it's a Word 2007 file. Download the compatibility pack
and you'll be fine. Then give the sender the dickens for not doing a
Save As and using the older format.

"Viv" wrote in message
...
I received an email with an attachment with a file extention of
docX and cannot read it. Any suggestions?


Is it true, then, that if you have a version of Word that is pre-
Office 2003 you cannot read a docx file? Or that MS has not provided
any patch or add-on to read these filetypes?

That would hardly make Word 2007 an 'open' product! Is there a way for
someone still running Win98 and Word 97 to read these files?

Perry B

[Deirdre]

It may be as simple as a typo. try coping the document, and on your copy,
remove the "X"... WAG but it may work,

"Viv" wrote:

I received an email with an attachment with a file extention of docX and
cannot read it. Any suggestions?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Not likely. A .docx file is created by Word 2007. Viv can either download
the compatibility pack
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...3470-3ae9-4aee
-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en) or ask the sender to save the document in
Word 97-2003 (.doc) format.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

"Deirdre" wrote in message
...
It may be as simple as a typo. try coping the document, and on your copy,
remove the "X"... WAG but it may work,

"Viv" wrote:

I received an email with an attachment with a file extention of docX and
cannot read it. Any suggestions?

[Pangloss]

This is not true. Office 2007 can output a file in Office 2003 format, but
the resulting file is not the same as that which would be made by Office
2003. For instance, if you prepare a file in '07and have equations in it, if
you save it in '03 format the equations are no longer represented as
equations, but as graphical objects. Which means they cannot be edited using
the standard equation editor. I wrote a while paper (with many equations)
using '07, and found that the journal to which I was submitting it didn't
accept the '07 format, and that saving the file in the '03 format was
hopelessly inadequate. I had to redo all of the equations on a computer that
still had '03.

I have had other problems with '07 programs. For instance, I like making
graphs with crosshatching and diagonal lines, both patterns that no longer
exist in the '07 version of powerpoint. And when I have graphical images that
are created by, for instance, plots in '07 Excell, certain combinations of
lines are assembled into a single object that cannot be ungrouped after
transfer to, for instance, '07 powerpoint.

Add this to the fact that many commands are much more difficult to access,
involving time-intensive pull-down menus, I have decided that my choice to
update to '07 was a mistake, and am going back.




"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Users of Office 2002 and 2000 should be OK
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...686761033.aspx
Microsoft no longer supports 97 and makes no reference to it. Word 2007 is
more than capable of producing compatible output with these older products,
so complain to whoever sent you the email.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



Perry B wrote:
"JoAnn Paules" wrote:

That means it's a Word 2007 file. Download the compatibility pack
and you'll be fine. Then give the sender the dickens for not doing a
Save As and using the older format.

"Viv" wrote in message
...
I received an email with an attachment with a file extention of
docX and cannot read it. Any suggestions?


Is it true, then, that if you have a version of Word that is pre-
Office 2003 you cannot read a docx file? Or that MS has not provided
any patch or add-on to read these filetypes?

That would hardly make Word 2007 an 'open' product! Is there a way for
someone still running Win98 and Word 97 to read these files?

Perry B