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From many years everybody is using the old word files with extension .doc. How would you feel if you send a document to someone with .doc extension and you were using the old version of Microsoft word and they are unable to open that document? Or how to open .Doc Files with Microsoft Word.

By the arrival of Office 2007, Microsoft introduces a new file format, known as Open XML, having an extension of .docx, and Office 2007 is the default file format. There are many advantages of this .docx file over .doc files that is it took less space in disc, more secure against viruses and there are very view chances of this file to be corrupted. When this .docx came in, got a really good response. The most interesting thing is that you can open any old version of word in office 2007. But as we are habitual of using .doc file so we use .doc extension while saving our document in 2007. So the main problem arise when you want to open .docx document with Microsoft word even in older version than it just clicks in your mind that how to open .docx Files with Microsoft Word? So to do this you have to follow a sequence of steps and you will be able to open the .docx document in Microsoft word.

It also depends upon whether you are using Mac, Linux or Windows. Is you are windows user and also have older version of Microsoft Office, then visit Microsoft’s Website and then download the free updated version named Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack and if you are Mac user there would also a converter named Open XML Converter. The purpose of this would be that by installing this you would be able open a .docx file with the older version of Microsoft word. You can also download “World View” (Link) application from Microsoft that would enable you to open .docx documents. Isn’t it very simple, in future you don’t even need to think that how to open .Docx files with Microsoft Word? You just downloaded the software once, and would be beneficial for you in future.

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