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

[Chris Scheers]

Wilm Boerhout wrote:
> Allen, Daniel P. mentioned  on 7-1-2010 19:55:
>>
>> -----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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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

Actually, Word 2003 can "save as" a Word 2007 file.

Microsoft released a "compatibility kit" that gives .docx capability all 
the way back to Word 2000.  While you may argue that this is not 
"vanilla", you should be updating your office environment in any case to 
deal with some of the security/stability issues.

I find it interesting that it was possible to retrofit .docx file on 
Word 2000.  This seems to imply that there haven't been any significant 
capabilities added to the file format since then.

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