I bet this has happened to you before, a new Email has just arrived and it contained a .docx file. Sadly you are at work and still using Office 2003. Here’s how to read Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint 2007 files on every computer.

  1. This is the easy solution Download Word viewer 2007 and open the .docx file with it. There are also tools to handle Excel and PowerPoint.Microsoft Word 2007
  2. And now to the fun solution, hacking the system! Here we will view the files using Notepad or Internet Explorer, here is what you need to do:
    1. Change the extension of the file from .docx to .zip.
    2. Use WinZip to open the .zip file. User the extract here option so you will get the files with their sub folders.
    3. Go to the extracted files and open the “word” directory. Inside you will find a file named document.xml
    4. use Internet Explorer or notepad to open the document.xml file and you will get Microsof Excell 2007all the text that was in the original .docx file.
    5. The down side to this method is you will get all the text as is, with no pictures, special colors. If the text comes with tables or pictures you can find them in the “media” folder.

Amit

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