10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents

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Wed, Nov 14 2007 at 1:30PM PST • Contributed by: Mindcrime

I noticed the other day when I received a document from a client that he had sent it in Word 2007 format (.docx); being on a Mac, I obviously don't have immediate access to Word 2007 and because it's never been an issue before, I didn't even have a converter installed.

However, once I'd copied the document to my downloads folder, Finder spawned a preview icon of it immediately and much to my happy surprise, I was able to not only Quick Look it, I was able to open in it TextEdit and work with. Even better, the app also allowed me to save it in the older Word format with no loss of integrity.

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10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents
Authored by: striz900 on Wed, Nov 14 2007 at 2:12PM PST

Hooray! No more converters or php tag stripping!

10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents
Authored by: 5chm31din6 on Wed, Nov 14 2007 at 6:38PM PST

Yeah, doesn't work for me. The .docx "files" appear as folders on our Leopard machines. If I attempt to drag it onto the TextEdit icon I get a "...could not be opened" error dialog. Oh well.

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10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents
Authored by: ruMac on Wed, Nov 14 2007 at 8:58PM PST

Works for me, and it works even better with Pages 2008 which allows you to keep "track changes," or add them.

10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents
Authored by: Spartacus on Thu, Nov 15 2007 at 2:55AM PST

OpenDocument and Word 2007 Formats
Take advantage of TextEdit support for the Word 2007 and OpenDocument formats for reading and writing.

That hint was already published: on Apple's web site.

10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents
Authored by: bengarland on Thu, Nov 15 2007 at 10:18AM PST

I was wondering if I was the only one that saw that.

Some of the hints around here have been really "Duhhhhh" lately.

10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents
Authored by: n1mie on Thu, Nov 15 2007 at 12:52PM PST

Except that this is the place where I look for this sort of hint. Sometimes the "duh" type are some of the best hints.

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10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents
Authored by: panamajack on Thu, Nov 15 2007 at 7:15AM PST

When a classmate sent me a .docx document I had to laugh when Pages '08 and NOT Word 2004 booted up automatically, with no hiccups.

Forcing Word to open it resulted in complete gibberish.

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