[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Wilm Boerhout]

Allen, Daniel P. mentioned  on 7-1-2010 19:55:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf Of Bob Koehler
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:19 AM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution
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> In article <7qk1koF8ebU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>>    You want a docx made by Word with a .doc file inside, too?
>> I don't.  [...]  I would
>> like to see youre .docx fiel that contains a .doc inside.
> 
>    I guess your not sure.  But at about this time I think it's just time
>    for the kill file.
> 
> You boys really need to get along.
> 
> Looking at the MS site it seems that a "native" .docx file (zip archive) does not contain an embedded .doc file. If the document is created from scratch with Word 2003 the document body with formatting, header and footer info, etc. are all stored in the archive as a collection of pure XML files.
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> If you use Word 2003 to open an existing .doc file and save it as .docx  the archive will contain the same files as above as well as a copy of the original .doc file.
> 
> Dan
> 

Dan, this is untrue.

There is no way for vanilla Word 2003 to "save as" *.docx (XML format), 
since the docx format was introduced in Word 2007.

And even when I open a Word 2003 *.doc document with Word 2007, and then 
save it as a *.docx, the original *.doc file is not in the *.docx XML 
archive. When you rename the *.docx to *.zip, you just find a bunch of 
*.xml inside, one of them being document.xml, that contains the actual 
document contents.

/Wilm