MS Word help please!!

[desprateseagull]

I saved a Word letter on a flashdrive (done at library) as .docx by mistake, only realising when got home, and opened it with just scrambled text.. any way to recover the data?

 

[brakespear]

you can download the filters from microsoft to allow you to open docx files........sadly I can't remember the link exactly but I've had to do it at work, will update this if I find them.

 

[Bozza]

Upload into Google Docs...

Upload .docx Files to Google Docs

 

[logan89]

Last time i done something like that i just needed to print it, you can download a MS Word viewer from the Microsoft website which allows you to view and print documents.

If you just need to view or print it i suggest doing this.

 

[logan89]

Word Viewer

Says you can open .docx files aswell.

 

[chidgull]

maybe worth trying to convert at Zamzar - Free online file conversion.

 

[brakespear]

Download details: Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I believe the docx is the Word 2007 format. Certainly Word 2003 has filters that will enable you to load up a docx as a doc - not sure about earlier versions of Word.
Wot u runnin?

 

[clapham_gull]

Doesn't help but the new Office file formats are actually "zip" files, containing XML files that contain the actual data.

If you don't believe me, change the extension to .zip, right click and extract.

Images contained in word, powerpoint documents can be directly extracted like that.

On the point in hand, I think that there are free tools from Microsoft that allow you open them in earlier versions of word as mentioned above.

 

[desprateseagull]

have found original verison, changed as normal word doc.

thnaks for the tips, though.