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Offline 3Deep

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Opening Files?
« 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.

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Opening Files?
« Reply #1 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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Re: Opening Files?
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: Opening Files?
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2015, 11:41:17 AM »
rename file without the x.... doc versus docx.....Works most of the time....

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Re: Opening Files?
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2015, 04:08:52 PM »
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/

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Re: Opening Files?
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2015, 04:33:44 PM »
Open Office...

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Re: Opening Files?
« Reply #6 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.

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Re: Opening Files?
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2015, 02:36:45 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"...

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Re: Opening Files?
« Reply #8 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