.docx to .doc

fluffymuffy

Hi Techies

I'm taking part in an online course at the moment and my assignment has to be submitted as a .doc

My word processing program makes .docx files and I've had a quick Google to see what the difference is. It seems that the .docx was a new thing in 2007. Is it fair to have a moan to the course provider that they're asking for files in an obsolete format? It's a brand new course from a major exam board and I'd like it to be their fault I haven't got the right file type rather than have to change mine. Am I right?

Bikertov

All you need to do is when you save, do it as 'Save As' and select 'Files of Type' and select 'Microsoft Word 2000' or similar ...

scottishblondie

Just save it as a .doc file. It's not an "obsolete" format, a lot of people people (even organisations) don't have the new version of MS Office - it is expensive after all!

Darksun

Older versions of Office can read docx files with a free plugin I believe

But yeah, just save in Office 2000 format, might make life easier

John_Gray

Darksun wrote: »

Older versions of Office can read docx files with a free plugin I believe

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

"Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the Open XML file formats which were introduced to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint beginning with Office 2007."

debitcardmayhem

I thought docx was my out of hours GP service

Aldrich67

you can convert it online docx2doc.com