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 ...

BearPup sometimes wants to open a file in one program, and other times open it in another. He asked the Answer Line forum for an easy way to do this. Windows uses a file’s extension–the part of the ...

If you work on a Mac OS X computer in your office and receive DOCX documents created by Microsoft Office on a Windows computer, you can use Pages to open the documents. Pages '09 works with DOCX ...

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 ...

The problem can occur when the Word file you are trying to open has a different file extension than the file you are attaching. It happens when you convert the file manually. There can be other ...

The Windows vs Mac debate isn’t a new one, but now more than ever people find themselves working between the two operating systems, be it for work or play. We can also assume that those working ...

When you double-click on a file in Windows, it will automatically open a default program that is configured to manage these types of files. It is common, though, want or need to use a different ...

This has been a frequent complaint by users of Microsoft Office 2003 and earlier word processing software since Microsoft launched Office 2007, and introduced the .docx format. “At the beginning of ...

“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 ...