[hblug] The docx problem

[Brett Wilkins]

Ok, the attachment didn't work.  This time it should...

> I did indeed cover it before, but in less amount of detail.
>
> I've attached a docx, so that others can get a sense of what the format is
> like. rename it to a zip file and open it up to see how the docx format is
> laid out. Note that I got this with a bunch of other "example" files from
> sourceforge, so I'm not responsible for the content of this file.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brett
>
>> Perry Spiller wrote:
>>> ----------------Earlier, you commented--------------------
>>>> gordon arnott wrote:
>>>>> ( most MS office users have no idea what "document format" means -
>>>>> they just hit the save button )
>>>>>
>>>>> Simple solution
>>>>>
>>>>> Just save as   >> earlier version <<
>>>>>
>>>>> before you hit the <<  SAVE  Button  <<
>>>> Yes simple to anyone in this group - but you would be surprised how
>>>> many people ( office staff etc ) who dont know or realise that you
>>>> CAN choose to save as an earlier version. Or that there are options
>>>> to be had.
>>>>
>>>> Hell, they don't even know where they saved it or what it was
>>>> called.....
>>>>
>>>> I've spent many wasted phone calls to clients trying to walk them
>>>> through that very process..! :)
>>>
>>>
>>> There are NO solutions that are simple. At least, not
>>> in the average office (as Chris emphasises). When
>>> I tired to explain to someone how to change the
>>> document properties to prevent a template from
>>> being over-written, you'd've thought it was a divine
>>> revelation. And that's an outfit that has a fairly
>>> large IT dept which regularly runs staff courses.
>>>
>>> Huh?
>>>
>>> Why would anyone (Except MS, for dubious reasons)
>>> need to compress a doc file on saving? It's not as if
>>> storage media is getting hard to find or dearer.
>>>
>>> Perry
>>>
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>> I can think of one good reason that MS would need to compress a doc
>> file... messy xml!.. also it miay not actually be compressed and merely
>> an archive form so that it comes as a single file rather than 2 or 3.
>> Also for that matter (IIRC) when i was trying to open an odt or similar
>> on a windows machine i found that it was also in the form of an archive,
>> i assume for the reasons above.
>>
>> Also harking back to the trial software issue I recently bought my
>> laptop (which came with Vista) and found it had a trial of office
>> 2007... the interesting thing about this trial is that it is quite open
>> to exploitation (in my eyes) as it allows 25 uses before entering a key
>> and then (in my case) comes with a 60 day trial key. I, as a sparse user
>> of office, have already got 2 months out of my trial without any key at
>> all
>>
>> I've just made a word file containing 'qwertyuiop' in the default font
>> and found that this consumes a rather hefty 9.64kb (vs 10 bytes of
>> actual data), when i change the extension to .zip i find 3 folders and
>> one file in the root of the directory with probably a dozen or so other
>> files contained in the folders which i have to say would be rather messy
>> in the case of saving a file outside of an archive format, one of which
>> containing the document content (qwertyuiop) and the rest (I assume)
>> being xml stuff. On downloading an odt and renaming it to .zip i find
>> again a rather large number of files so this portion is relatively
>> simple
>>
>> Haydn
>>
>> PS I believe brett may have covered this since i started writing and
>> apologise for any double ups
>>
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