How to convert docx to doc and other files
Some people nowadays are using Microsoft Office 2008 in creating their office applications. The utilization of this new version of office applications poses problems regarding compatibility and portability of office documents. If you have noticed, Office 2008 documents contains and extended character at the end of their file types (docx for doc, xlsx for xls, pptx for ppt). All of these new file extensions are not compatible with the previous versions of the Microsoft Office suite. There was even an instance when I forgot to save my document as an office 2003 compatible document. When I transferred to the workstation which uses an older version of Microsoft Office, I have encountered problems in opening my document.
Last night, I was able to find a way to convert office 2008 files to office 2003 compatible files without the use of any office 2008 applications. These conversion tools are online applications, which makes it more robust in terms of portability.
- Docx2Doc is a web service which offers free conversion of docx documents to doc format. http://www.docx2doc.com/
- Zamzar is another service which offers document conversions. The advantage of Zamzar is its capability to convert not only office documents, but also images, music, archives and videos as well. http://zamzar.com/
- NEW! Thanks to Michael for sharing this resource. TDS Converter offers free conversion of docx to doc. http://converter.tds.lv/
In fact, there are a lot of free online conversion tools available in the net. All you have to do is google your desired keyword for the file you wanted to convert.
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February 10th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Nice Info on this one
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March 4th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
thnx ani fb! nawerla ko kay the last time i asked my students to submit their reviews through email hindi ko ma-open2 ung mga .docx…hehehe…^^
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April 6th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Nice ^_^ ganda binigay sa iyo wow hmmm swerte naman!
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June 14th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
It would also be good to suggest to Word 2007 users na kung isesend nila yung file to someone who uses an older version of Office to just save the file in .doc format. Pwede yung gawin, diba? pipili ka lang ng file format pag save mo.
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August 16th, 2008 at 12:43 am
EASY ANSWER: change Office 2008 (Word) to save as .doc instead of docx going fwd. Open blank document, choose “Save As” go to “Options” change settings.
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Winston Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
some people don’t have an office 2008 installed in their computers.
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October 7th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
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October 18th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
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November 24th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Hey, i don’t know if you ever tried the two sites you placed into your blog but zamzar doesn’t send you any email it’s just to get your email stored into their database and docx2doc ask you to pay for the conversion, so one of them sucks and the other is not free..great information you provide techykid.com.
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November 24th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
@HPC: hi HPC. I’ve tried using both services at the time of writing of this article.
the zamzar service sent the file in two or three minutes after i uploaded it. whereas the other service was only referred to me by a friend.
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December 9th, 2008 at 7:55 am
docx2doc charges 7.95 to view your files.
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December 9th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Thank you–I was just about to say the same thing.
A bit more elaborate, but at least it’s free: Get yourself a copy of OpenOffice.org. It allows you to save a docx as doc. Then, you can open the doc in Word.
I am surprised (well, not really) that Microsoft does not offer either a conversion add-on for Word 2003 or an online conversion tool.
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January 9th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
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January 15th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
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March 4th, 2009 at 5:30 am
There are some other free online services like http://converter.tds.lv
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March 10th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
http://converter.tds.lv/ is useful than other two option. I like this site.
Thanks Michael!!!!
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April 13th, 2009 at 3:01 am
hey guys you dont need all those tools and stuff….!!!!! open your docx file , use the new tab to open a new word document. copy ur stuff on the first and paste on the second. click save. on the save as window that appears is a tools tab in the bottom left corner…click that and go to save options …the first option you have is what format u want to save the document as!!!!!!!!
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April 20th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Hello Techykid,
Good info. I found out today that http://www.docx2doc.com/ does not offer free docx conversion anymore. I tried to convert a docx file to doc and they ask me for 1.95 US$ (bummer)
Ciao,
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Winston Reply:
April 24th, 2009 at 12:55 am
try the new link. it works for free.
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April 30th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
thanks for the article. It useful thing
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May 10th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Yeah, good call. Send your personal documents to a Latvia, one of the homes of scammers and fraudsters. Just pay the $1.95 at http://www.docx2doc.com and be safe.
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May 14th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
You can use phpLiveDocx, if you want to convert word processing formats from program code. phpLiveDocx is a freely available Zend Framework compatible component for PHP and can be downloaded from http://www.phplivedocx.org. It runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.
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May 20th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
[...] site, Techy Kid (which is in my blogroll). He listed a couple of sites that helps you convert docx to doc files. I actually tried both, just for the heck of it. It worked great and (unfortunately) now I [...]
June 22nd, 2009 at 7:53 pm
What HPC said.
Your advice in this blog is dogshit.
One site charges for conversions.
The other harvests emails and does not send you your documents.
Nice shitty advice dumbass.
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August 7th, 2009 at 12:27 am
brengsek!!
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August 20th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
I dont think docx2doc.com gives free services anymore. Was trying it out today, it keeps prompting me to pay.
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August 20th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Zamzar is quite good. Thanks for the tip!
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September 19th, 2009 at 2:56 am
[...] friends asked me of how to convert DOCX to DOC for free. Because there were a lot of services online that offers this service, but it’s not for free. [...]
February 23rd, 2010 at 7:50 pm
wla bng program? pra kung wlng internet pwede parin mag convert.
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March 10th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Give Microsoft a break! They’re awesome and make great products.
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April 21st, 2010 at 12:55 am
nice info, but does anybody know a free ones ?
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June 7th, 2010 at 1:39 am
thanks for this great post wow… it’s very
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June 19th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Hmmm, office 2008?? you mean 2007 right? techykid^_^
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June 20th, 2010 at 1:17 am
i have converted my File at the same moment.. thats a nice way i suggest everyone to use that method
Thanks
~Stylo~
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July 20th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
zamzar helped me convert the docx file to doc! the best thing is it’s free, whereas www. docx2doc.com asked me to pay first $1.95 just to download the file i wanted to convert.
thanks for the help!
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