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10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents Apps
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: Anonymous on Nov 14, '07 02:12:51PM

Hooray! No more converters or php tag stripping!



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10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents
Authored by: 5chm31din6 on Nov 14, '07 06:38:51PM

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 Nov 14, '07 08:58:12PM

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



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10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents
Authored by: Spartacus on Nov 15, '07 02:55:26AM
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.

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10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents
Authored by: bengarland on Nov 15, '07 10:18:09AM

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

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



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10.5: Use TextEdit to open Office 2007 documents
Authored by: n1mie on Nov 15, '07 12:52:08PM

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 Nov 15, '07 07:15:21AM

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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