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[zana16]

Computer trouble... On a Windows machine, if you have a Word document named "Zana", how do you get the settings so that it will read "Zana.doc" so that I can go in and change the ".doc" part?

Or, perhaps more easily, how the hell do I convert a .docx to something my ancient machine can read?? *fumes* Installing stuff is a bad option, it will just crash the machine.

ETA: figured out the second question, still looking for an answer to the first.

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Here, randomly, via Network page

[blnchflr]

http://www.fileinfo.com/help/windows-show-extensions.html

I don't know that you can rename .docx files to .doc and have them open no problem.

If you just need the plain text content of the .docx and are desperate, make a copy of your .docx file (in case you mess something up you'll still have the original file), then rename the copy .zip - this zip file you can then unzip, and in the resulting folder, you should find an .xml file containing the plain text (with tags).

Eh, but there are probably easier ways of doing it, too - good luck; I remember having a computer too old and unstable for installing anything :o/

Re: Here, randomly, via Network page

[zana16]

Huh. I will try this! Computers are very strange beasts, are they not?

[axiom_of_stripe]

On a Windows machine, if you have a Word document named "Zana", how do you get the settings so that it will read "Zana.doc"

Specifics will depends on what version of Windows, but here's basically what you want to do:

* Go into Folder Options (may be called Organize or View Options)
* Find the advanced settings list
* Find something like "hide extensions for known file types"
* Uncheck that box!
* Apply this change

[zana16]

Oh, awesome, it worked! Yay!

Thank you!