Leave it to Microsoft to come up with a 4 digit file extension that my current version of Microsoft Word will not read.
Yeah, I know I can probably download something in only a couple hours on my dial-up but it's just a document file!##&^*!. Microsoft Word is already a bloated behemoth that makes a simple text document several hundred K. And asked me everytime I close a document "Do you want to save the changes?" even though I didn't make any changes.
Why does Microsoft have to make things so difficult?
I finally got rid of their Internet Explorer because it kept nagging me everytime I clicked on a website to install activeX controls and gave me no option to to disable it. I installed Firefox Mozilla and never looked back.
uh oh,
the file is over 27 megs!!!!!
You might have to download it overnight.
🙁
edit:
I found this, maybe it is smaller. Good Luck.
:coffee:
if you send it to me i can open it and then save it back to a .doc file....
Thanks everyone for offering to convert it. It was just a halloween party invite so I have already had the sender resend it in DOC format. I just like to complain about Microsoft.
Time to try out Open Office
It will handle most anything Micro$oft churns out and you can set the save defaults to a more common language (*.doc)
I had it on hand for years for situations like this and slowly worked into making it my prime suite of tools... the learning curve was less for me than the new M$ Office Suite.
Perry
Microsoft has downloadable software to address this issue. We use MS Ofice 2003 and had the same problem with later versions of Word. A quick search should find the link.
David
Microsoft isn't the only behemoth company that opts to continually change their file format. 😛
However, I tend to agree with your criticism of DOCX... aside from a slightly smaller file size footprint, I don't see a tremendous benefit of the newer file format.
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Ladd Nelson
The new format adds support for new features. There are things in the new MS Office that you'll lose if you save your files to the old DOC/XLS formats.
Of course, if you never use any of the new features, it turns into little more than another annoyance.
However, at least Microsoft put out patches for the old Office, so it can read/write the new format. And it's been an awful long time since they changed the format - the last significant change was for Office '97. There's another company I can think of that releases software every year now that is incompatible with the previous year, and merely tells you to stay on subscription and upgrade your software every year to avoid problems...
Damn that Microsoft and their wierd proprietary crap.
Oh, wait. .DOCX is XML.
Open Office Opens Microsoft *.DOCX files
Just had a docx file emailed to me and Open Office opened it without a hitch.
That software is worth every penny I paid for it and then some.
Oh wait
"IT WAS FREE!"
Paul in PA
Open Office Opens Microsoft *.DOCX files
I still use Office 97 Professional on my computer, but keep wondering just how long it will work with the newer stuff. I put Office 2003 on the wife's computer, but I don't like it as well as I do Office 97. Matter of fact, I could do things with Office Professional with Word 6.0 and Exel 5.0 that 97 would not do. 2003 will not read Word 6.0 files unless I put them in Word 97 and save them as a 95/97 document
