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Earl Wajenberg - 05 Mar 2007 18:52 GMT

Our office has Word 2002, and we need to be able to produce XML documents.

I have installed the Office compatibility pack "FileFormatConverters.exe" at

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43
-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en

and update 917347 at

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/917347/en-us

I thought this would let me save Word 2002 files as XML, but I can't find
any such option under Save As or any of the other menu items I've explored.
The packages claimed they installed successfully. Any idea on what I'm doing
wrong?

Thanks.

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Bob Buckland ?:-) - 06 Mar 2007 06:51 GMT

Hi Earl,

MS Office 2007 file formats (which is what the Office compatibility pack open and save into) are zipped xml files, with a .docx or
.docm (without and with macros). If you're not seeing a choice in File=>Save As to save in Word 2007 file format try turning on
[x] Confirm conversions on open
in Tools=>Options=>General then restart Word.

The ability to save to 'just' .xml files in Word wasn't added until Word 2003.

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Our office has Word 2002, and we need to be able to produce XML documents.

I have installed the Office compatibility pack "FileFormatConverters.exe" at

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43
-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en

and update 917347 at

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/917347/en-us

I thought this would let me save Word 2002 files as XML, but I can't find
any such option under Save As or any of the other menu items I've explored.
The packages claimed they installed successfully. Any idea on what I'm doing
wrong?

Thanks. >>

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MS Office System Products MVP

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Earl Wajenberg - 06 Mar 2007 13:57 GMT

Thank you. I do have .docx and .docm types available after adding the
compatibility pack. And these are zipped forms of XML? (Wish they'd said.)
I created a .docx file and experimentally opened it as Text, and found a nice
bit of gibberish that could well have been zip compression, including the
remark "[Content_Types].xml" near the top. So this may be what I need.

If I unzipped them, would they simply turn into XML?

Earl Wajenberg

> Hi Earl,
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> The ability to save to 'just' .xml files in Word wasn't added until Word 2003.

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Bob Buckland ?:-) - 07 Mar 2007 15:41 GMT

Hi Earl,

If you add .zip as an extension to the .docx file you should be able to open the collection of XML files that make up the documents
(some zippers can recognize the files as zipped without the extra step of the retagging).

The spec for the Office Open Document XML format is available at
http://www.openxmldeveloper.org/ with an overview at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

Thank you. I do have .docx and .docm types available after adding the
compatibility pack. And these are zipped forms of XML? (Wish they'd said.)
I created a .docx file and experimentally opened it as Text, and found a nice
bit of gibberish that could well have been zip compression, including the
remark "[Content_Types].xml" near the top. So this may be what I need.

If I unzipped them, would they simply turn into XML?

Earl Wajenberg <<

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*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

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