Our office has Word 2002, and we need to be able to produce XML documents. I have installed the Office compatibility pack "FileFormatConverters.exe" at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en and update 917347 at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/917347/en-us I thought this would let me save Word 2002 files as XML, but I can't find any such option under Save As or any of the other menu items I've explored. The packages claimed they installed successfully. Any idea on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
Hi Earl, MS Office 2007 file formats (which is what the Office compatibility pack open and save into) are zipped xml files, with a .docx or ..docm (without and with macros). If you're not seeing a choice in File=>Save As to save in Word 2007 file format try turning on [x] Confirm conversions on open in Tools=>Options=>General then restart Word. The ability to save to 'just' .xml files in Word wasn't added until Word 2003. ================== <<"Earl Wajenberg" <EarlWajenberg@Entwistle> wrote in message news:241968D5-3082-4196-8201-231F7EAA4CBB@microsoft.com... Our office has Word 2002, and we need to be able to produce XML documents. I have installed the Office compatibility pack "FileFormatConverters.exe" at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en and update 917347 at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/917347/en-us I thought this would let me save Word 2002 files as XML, but I can't find any such option under Save As or any of the other menu items I've explored. The packages claimed they installed successfully. Any idea on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. >> -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
Thank you. I do have .docx and .docm types available after adding the compatibility pack. And these are zipped forms of XML? (Wish they'd said.) I created a .docx file and experimentally opened it as Text, and found a nice bit of gibberish that could well have been zip compression, including the remark "[Content_Types].xml" near the top. So this may be what I need. If I unzipped them, would they simply turn into XML? Earl Wajenberg "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: > Hi Earl, > > MS Office 2007 file formats (which is what the Office compatibility pack open and save into) are zipped xml files, with a .docx or > ..docm (without and with macros). If you're not seeing a choice in File=>Save As to save in Word 2007 file format try turning on > [x] Confirm conversions on open > in Tools=>Options=>General then restart Word. > > The ability to save to 'just' .xml files in Word wasn't added until Word 2003.
Hi Earl, If you add .zip as an extension to the .docx file you should be able to open the collection of XML files that make up the documents (some zippers can recognize the files as zipped without the extra step of the retagging). The spec for the Office Open Document XML format is available at http://www.openxmldeveloper.org/ with an overview at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML <<"Earl Wajenberg" <EarlWajenberg@Entwistle> wrote in message news:501793E7-8179-496B-9088-29F748168980@microsoft.com... Thank you. I do have .docx and .docm types available after adding the compatibility pack. And these are zipped forms of XML? (Wish they'd said.) I created a .docx file and experimentally opened it as Text, and found a nice bit of gibberish that could well have been zip compression, including the remark "[Content_Types].xml" near the top. So this may be what I need. If I unzipped them, would they simply turn into XML? Earl Wajenberg << -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
