Hello,
Have you had colleagues or students send you a Word file which you
can't open? Did you notice that this file ended with .docx as opposed
to the usual .doc ? Well if you do have such a file, what you've got
yourself there one of them newfangled Open XML files.
Office 2007 (Windows) and the yet unreleased Office 2008 (Macintosh)
use a new file format called Open XML. However, Office 2008 isn't
slated to ship until sometime in the second half of this year, and
Open XML isn't readable by any earlier versions of Word (Windows or
Macintosh). Even when Office 2008 does ship, there will be those who
may not wish to upgrade. This is where the new Word 2007 Open XML
file converter for Macintosh comes in handy.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/
mac/download/Office2004/ConverterBeta.xml
Of course, you could always request of the individual who sent you
the .docx file, to please resend the file as .doc (ie. they need to
use the "Save as" command).
Regards,
Doug
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Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP
Senior Computer Consultant
Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba
204-474-6196 (Ph.)
204-474-7556 (Fax)
http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/
