Microsoft introduced the DOCX format, which ends with the extension .docx, in 2007 as an upgrade to its popular word-processing program, Word. DOCX files' incompatibility with earlier versions of Word ...

Beginning with Office 2007, Microsoft unveiled a new file format, called Open XML, which uses the .docx extensionbut isn't compatible with older versions of Office without some assistance. Here ...

How to Open DOCX Files on XP. If your business computers run XP and you don't use Microsoft Word to manage documents, you may find the Microsoft Word Viewer useful.

Those files have a “.docx” extension. Windows knows exactly what this is but, if you don’t have Microsoft Word installed, the operating system doesn’t know what program to open the file with.

Another version of https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Microsoft+Office.html, another set of file-compatibility hassles. (No, really, thanks a ton, Microsoft.) Office 2007 ...

“If you rename a .docx file to .zip you can open it,” tweets SwiftOnSecurity, the security professional/Taylor Swift parody account. Then you can grab images and video that were embedded in the ...

After we listed a few of the ways you can convert .docx to .doc in the July 2010 issue of Macworld, readers suggested a few more. An anonymous MacOSXHints.com reader reminds us of an even easier way, ...