Comments on: Open .docx files on a mac

By: Del Davidson

Del Davidson — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:35:45 +0000

My wife says you are a lifesaver……..She got a recipe from a friend and we could not open it on a MAC even with Office…. She could read with quick look but could not print it… I tried Grab with no luck…. Thanks, Del

By: saadman

saadman — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:32:49 +0000

Worked great. Your a life saver.

By: Ben Pettis

Ben Pettis — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:33:46 +0000

Thanks for the tip. It’s annoying because my teacher puts all of her class documents online in .DOCX format, and my dad would have to go to work and convert/print it for me. I wish that Microsoft would stop using proprietary and adopt other standards, such as ODF.

Anyways, something that works if you want to keep formatting, it to use Google Docs. http://docs.google.com It works great for opening and resaving the file into a different format.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:12:15 +0000

UnZip is an extraction utility for archives compressed in .zip format (also called “zipfiles”). If you change the file to zip and double click the zip file, Mac will automatically unzip it for you as it is build in OS X

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:27:18 +0000

What do you mean by Unzip?

By: jogh

jogh — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:24:12 +0000

holy shit thanks

By: NH

NH — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:30:29 +0000

NONE of the tips worked for me. My Mac couldn’t identify a place to install the application. What’s wrong with, safari opened a blank page and text edit brought up a bunch of garbage.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:07:56 +0000

Yo Burners! Text Edit is the ticket. Amazing that Microsoft invented something that its own software can’t deal with (although it had to be intentional), but something as simple as Text Edit can.

Thank you! I’ve been looking high and low for a solution and it was right under my nose. Much appreciated!

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:37:01 +0000

Interestingly i was able to view a .docx file directly in Quick Look (10.5.6). It was a large file with embedded images, tables, and formatting, and Quick Look displayed it properly. For some reason the unzip trick didn't work for me. And i didn't want to install anything. Microsoft's converter wouldn't have helped much because i still can't open regular .doc files without Word installed. I didn't need to edit the document and just wanted to open and view it, so i did this (similar to the Zamzar service mentioned previously): Upload to scribd.com, then you can view it in your browser, download as a PDF, or print it out.

By: daena

daena — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:12:16 +0000

You are a lifesaver!!! Worked PERFECTLY!!! Awesome!