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\uc1\pard\plain\deftab360 \f0\fs20 It occurred to me that this technique could be helpful in recovering text from a corrupted DOCX file.\par
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Rob\par
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From: [email protected] on behalf of Ronda Brown\par
Sent: Wed 11/10/2010 1:00 PM\par
To: WAMUG Mailing List\par
Subject: Re: Useful MS .docx file tip\par
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On 10/11/2010, at 10:13 AM, Ray Forma wrote:\par
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> Did you know that Word's DOCX file format is a glorified ZIP file? Change the extension to ZIP, unzip it, and you'll find all of the document's original assets, including the images as individual files in a folder.\par
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> Images are in the resulting media folder in .png format, and they are in the same resolution as they are in the MS Word document. Note that one of the 'superior hidden features' of MS Word is that it often reduces the resolution of images without the user knowing.\par
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> To get the text, open the 'document.xml' file with Safari.\par
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> Regards,\par
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> Ray Forma\par
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Hi Ray,\par
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You are correct in what you have said, but what is your reasoning behind going to all that trouble, why don't you either use TextEdit or Pages Application to open the Word DOCX files? Is it because you wish to just use the images or original assets?\par
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Double click the docx file and it will open in which ever Application you have set as default.\par
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You have been able to Open & Edit and save back in Word .docx format from Text Edit and Open & Edit and 'Export' as Word.docx from Pages for a long time.\par
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Cheers,\par
Ronni\par
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