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Artist => General Art Discussions => Topic started by: 3Deep on October 27, 2015, 11:19:25 AM

Title: Opening Files?
Post by: 3Deep on October 27, 2015, 11:19:25 AM

I know I should know this, but what in the world are you all opening docx files with? both my Illy and Photoshop claim to to be able to open a docx file but don't 99% of the time.  We get art from schools in docx files which I hate :( even file opener don't work sometimes...any help I'll take.

darryl

Title: Opening Files?
Post by: Frog on October 27, 2015, 11:25:42 AM

That's the newer Word file I think, right? At any rate I only have Open Office. I believe it opens in Open Office and then I just select the graphic, copy, and paste it into my CorelDRAW.
But yeah I hate them too!


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Title: Re: Opening Files?
Post by: mimosatexas on October 27, 2015, 11:28:22 AM

Any office since 2007 (8 years ago!) can open them, and open office.  Hell even google can open them.

Title: Re: Opening Files?
Post by: royster13 on October 27, 2015, 11:41:17 AM

rename file without the x.... doc versus docx.....Works most of the time....

Title: Re: Opening Files?
Post by: redwoodtees on October 27, 2015, 04:08:52 PM

Quote from: mimosatexas on October 27, 2015, 11:28:22 AM

even google can open them.

This is probably the simplest solution if you don't have Office. Here's an article that describes that as well as 4 other methods:

http://www.tothepc.com/archives/5-ways-to-open-docx-word-document-files/ (http://www.tothepc.com/archives/5-ways-to-open-docx-word-document-files/)

Title: Re: Opening Files?
Post by: Sbrem on October 27, 2015, 04:33:44 PM

Open Office...

Steve

Title: Re: Opening Files?
Post by: Rockers on October 27, 2015, 07:46:53 PM

We open them in Open Office then go into the print menu and save them as .pdf, something you can`t do via the normal "save as" function.

Title: Re: Opening Files?
Post by: Sbrem on October 28, 2015, 02:36:45 PM

Quote from: Rockers on October 27, 2015, 07:46:53 PM

We open them in Open Office then go into the print menu and save them as .pdf, something you can`t do via the normal "save as" function.

What he said, I forgot to tell you to save as .pdf. Then you can place it in Illustrator and "Flatten Transparency" or "Embed"...

Steve

Title: Re: Opening Files?
Post by: caseycityhall on October 28, 2015, 10:07:07 PM

I think you can also change the extension to .zip and then open it and find a folder within called "media" and it should have all the pictures. Only works with docx files though