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 ...

Click "File" in Pages '09 and then choose "Open" from the menu. Select the DOCX document using the built-in file browser and then click "Open" to open it in Pages.

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.

With the introduction of Office 2007, Microsoft abandoned the age-old .doc format in favor of the newer .docx (also known as the Office Open XML format). If you’re still using Word 2003 or an ...

(No, really, thanks a ton, Microsoft.) Office 2007 brought with it the Docx format, which can’t easily be opened by anyone who doesn’t also have Office 2007.