Mini-Byte: DOCX to DOC
Posted by tekkieteacher on March 24, 2008
The Friday before spring break I received an urgent call from my Day Care provider. I am happy to report my son was just fine. The problem was with her computer. You see, she knows I work a lot with these crazy computers and she was having a problem with a document she had just emailed to all her parents. The problem was that they couldn’t open it.
She was experiencing the same problem that a lot of our students and teachers first started experiencing last year when VISTA and MS Office 2007 rolled out. Microsoft, in it’s infinite wisdom, changed the extension to all it’s Office documents and added a pesky little “x” at the end. Now, instead of a Word document saving as a “.doc” document, it saves as a “.docx” document and earlier versions of Office cannot open the document. The situation made for some very stressful moments when kids were trying to print off research papers…..
We’ve solved the problem here in the building. As long as you’ve clicked the pretty little butterfly in the Novell Desktop to run the compatibility patch, these documents should open up just fine now. However, you might still have some kids who are struggling with it, or you might still be having trouble with it, yourself. I found this site that walks you through several solutions to help you out in time of need.
http://www.walterglenn.com/2007/01/13/save-as-doc-instead-of-docx-in-word-2007/
