Just received a .docx file
Whre do I find a converter so I can use in Office 2004 for Mac as
a .doc file?
Thanks
Follow this linkhttp://download.microsoft.com/download/2/8/e/28ede2b3-7574-46e9-b00f-...
I downloaded the converter and opened my file. Perfect!
The file that opened is a .rft not a .doc -- does that matter?
Now what ...? Sorry, I always get confused with these .dmg things.
And there doesn't seem to be any documentation with the converter.
If I installed as per the download am I okay or do I now need to drag
to my Applications folder? To my Office folder? ...
See inline for answers.
Not really. The format is slightly different, but any application that can
read .doc files can read .rtf files, too.
As with any Mac OS X application, it is not recommendable to run the
converter from the disk image. Mount the image, drag the converter to your
Applications folder, then eject the disk image and delete the .dmg file.
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Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)
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aterry said:Please help me! I have office 2004 for mac and my friend emailed me a word 2007 document (from a pc), which I opened. I tried to just change the file extension, and it finally opened, but all it had was random characters and page breaks. Then all of the fonts on my computer for every single program (ichat, word, excel, some internet fonts) got deleted and I currently have something like 19 fonts on my entire computer (six of which are asian characters). I reinstalled office 2004, and it said it was loading all of the fonts, but I went to the font menu in word after installation and still only had 19 fonts. I don't even have times new roman, for crying out loud! I'm in high school and desperately need my fonts back. I would ask the microsoft people, but it costs $50 to call them, so I found this. If you could help at all, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!!!
aterry said:> Please help me! I have office 2004 for mac and my friend emailed me a word 2007 document (from a pc), which I opened. I tried to just change the file extension, and it finally opened, but all it had was random characters and page breaks. Then all of the fonts on my computer for every single program (ichat, word, excel, some internet fonts) got deleted and I currently have something like 19 fonts on my entire computer (six of which are asian characters). I reinstalled office 2004, and it said it was loading all of the fonts, but I went to the font menu in word after installation and still only had 19 fonts. I don't even have times new roman, for crying out loud! I'm in high school and desperately need my fonts back. I would ask the microsoft people, but it costs $50 to call them, so I found this. If you could help at all, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!!!
Hi,
There has been a change in the default file format that Microsoft Office
applications use beginning with Office 2007 for Windows and supported in
office 2008 for Mac.
Microsoft has released converters that allow you to change the new
format back to the old standard format. This URL (the whole long thing)
might show you the download to the Word and PowerPoint converter.
There's no converter for Excel, yet.
Other programs may also be able to open the new format Word documents.
You can try TextEdit.
A free program called NeoOffice <http://www.neooffice.org> can handle
Word, PowerPoint and even Excel documents that you encounter. NeoOffice
can save in the old standard format, so it's a handy converter.
You don't mentioned what you did that may have changed your font
situation. Uninstalling or reinstalling Office 2004 probably would not
affect your fonts unless you chose certain options along the way.
-Jim
--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
MVPs are independent experts who are not affiliated with Microsoft.
<http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/>
aterry wrote:
> Please help me! I have office 2004 for mac and my friend emailed me a
word 2007 document (from a pc), which I opened. I tried to just change the
file extension, and it finally opened, but all it had was random characters
and page breaks. Then all of the fonts on my computer for every single
program (ichat, word, excel, some internet fonts) got deleted and I currently
have something like 19 fonts on my entire computer (six of which are asian
characters). I reinstalled office 2004, and it said it was loading all of the
fonts, but I went to the font menu in word after installation and still only
had 19 fonts. I don't even have times new roman, for crying out loud! I'm in
high school and desperately need my fonts back. I would ask the microsoft
people, but it costs $50 to call them, so I found this. If you could help at
all, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!!!
Hi,
There has been a change in the default file format that Microsoft Office
applications use beginning with Office 2007 for Windows and supported in
office 2008 for Mac.
Microsoft has released converters that allow you to change the new
format back to the old standard format. This URL (the whole long thing)
might show you the download to the Word and PowerPoint converter.
There's no converter for Excel, yet.
Other programs may also be able to open the new format Word documents.
You can try TextEdit.
A free program called NeoOffice <http://www.neooffice.org> can handle
Word, PowerPoint and even Excel documents that you encounter. NeoOffice
can save in the old standard format, so it's a handy converter.
You don't mentioned what you did that may have changed your font
situation. Uninstalling or reinstalling Office 2004 probably would not
affect your fonts unless you chose certain options along the way.
-Jim
--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
MVPs are independent experts who are not affiliated with Microsoft.
<http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/>
Well, I downloaded the file from my email and saw that it was .docx, which I
tried to open, but it wouldn't go because word didn't recognize the file type.
I then changed the extension to just .doc and it said it still didn't
recognize the document and gave me a list to chose from as to what file it was
(the list was like "open as: rich text format, text only, microsoft 97, web
page, etc." and then I clicked about five that sounded good, but none of them
worked. Then I clicked the one that said "recover any text". It opened and was
about 100 pages long of symbols, page breaks, random phrases of
"word.microsoft.stuff/stuff//2222*$**034973//'[" and then I quit the program
and put the document in the trash and emptied the trash. I went on ichat and
realized it wasn't my regular font and tried to change the font back, but I
only had those 19 fonts. Then I went to word to see if it was just an ichat
problem, and found out it wasn't. Then I went to the font book folder, and yet
again, there were only about 19 files. I didn't change the font of the new
document or anything, I just opened it. Maybe it's just my computer dying and
coincidentally it happened when I opened the new document? Or could trying to
open the document screwed with my computer files? Thank you for the link,
though. I will probably have to use it for future projects.
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