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 a DOCX Online. 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 ...

Tired of Word docs you can't open with your older version of Office? Here are three free paths to total compatibility.

While admittedly it’s not as simple as it is on macOS to open a .docx file using Pages, here's how to open, edit and even re-export .pages files on a Windows PC.

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.

Copy the file sideways, rename .docx to .zip. Open in your .zip program, extract the data (.xml files), and open in notepad. You may be able to get the data, but loose formatting.<BR><BR>If you ...

Learn how to use a Microsoft 365 setting to choose whether to open files in the online or desktop app, giving you full control for each file.