What the heck is a 'docx' file??
Geek update: Got an email this morning with an attachment titled 'letter.docx'.
DOCX??? What the heck is that?
Ahh, its the latest file format from Microsoft's Office 2007. It's all XML and everything, supposedly. (Well this geek doesn't really understand XML as a tool for everyday text files. Isn't XML supposed to expand compatibility, too? But I'm leaving that off my radar.)
The fix? You can get a add-on to earlier Office versions here:
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
Or use an online conversion service like Zamzar.
Reminds me of when Office 97 came out and there was much trouble with compatibility. Back then we were sending email quotes in Word format, which made it an everyday issue.
1 Comments:
At October 09, 2007 8:58 AM, Mickey said…
Users (Mac and P.C.) that do not own Microsoft Office but still want to open Word 2007 docx or Excel 2007 xlsx files (users of other word processors, graphic or desktop publishing programs), or people who use the computer mostly for surfing or emailing
and users of earlier versions of Microsoft Office that are not covered by Microsoft compatibility pack, can use docxconverter 2.0 to convert and open docx and xlsx files. See: http://www.panergy-software.com/products/docxconverter/features.html
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