Those old .doc Word files that you're used to have been around for years, and are used by just about everybody. There's something wonderful about this ubiquity—if you send a .doc file to someone, you ...

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' incompatibility with earlier versions of Word ...

If your business computers run XP and you don't use Microsoft Word to manage documents, you may find the Microsoft Word Viewer useful. With this tool, you can view DOCX files without using Word. A ...

How to Use Settings to Open Microsoft 365 Files in Desktop Apps Your email has been sent Learn how to use a Microsoft 365 setting that lets you determine whether to work in an online or desktop ...

Another version of https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Microsoft+Office.html, another set of file-compatibility hassles. (No, really, thanks a ton, Microsoft.) Office 2007 ...

“If you rename a .docx file to .zip you can open it,” tweets SwiftOnSecurity, the security professional/Taylor Swift parody account. Then you can grab images and video that were embedded in the ...

It has been observed that conflicts with the default program settings in Windows can cause plain white icons to be displayed on your ‘.docx‘ files. As such, you may not see any Microsoft Word icon. If ...

After we listed a few of the ways you can convert .docx to .doc in the July 2010 issue of Macworld, readers suggested a few more. An anonymous MacOSXHints.com reader reminds us of an even easier way, ...