<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mark,<div><br></div><div>I would highly recommend downloading OpenOffice from <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">www.openoffice.org</a>. It's a great suite of office applications that many folks prefer over Micro$oft.</div><div><br></div><div>Another alternative is NeoOffice, which is based upon the same code.</div><div><br></div><div>Either of these will do the trick and allow you to create .docx documents, if desired.</div><div><br></div><div>Later,</div><div>Tom<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Mark Ruppert <<a href="mailto:revmarkruppert@verizon.net">revmarkruppert@verizon.net</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">June 3, 2009 6:31:02 PM EDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">NPMUG NPMUG <<a href="mailto:npmug@davesevick.com">npmug@davesevick.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>[NPMUG] opening ".docx" file?? From Ruppert</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div> <div bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000066"> I just got a document from a Windows user:<br> <br> Anybody have a trick for opening a Word, 2007 document with a "docx" suffix, with my Appleworks 6 or 2004 Word for Mac?<br> <br> Mark Ruppert<br> </div> _______________________________________________<br>NPMUG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NPMUG@davesevick.com">NPMUG@davesevick.com</a><br>http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>