solution: do your typsetting with something that actually works... tex

Out of interest - are you doing a DiDa (or AiDa, CiDa, CiDa+ or whatever) qualification...?

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Out of interest - are you doing a DiDa (or AiDa, CiDa, CiDa+ or whatever) qualification...?

Don't know actually lol, i'll find out when I go back to school.

To fix.

1) Salvage what you can then export into something that is not MS NOXML (Not open xml).
2) Uninstall Office 2007
3) Install OpenOffice or if you must Office 2003
4) Work without fear.

MS have made NOXML such that it is near IMPOSSIBLE to had edit anything. It is NOT safe and I would say avoid.

A great example is this. Create a spreadsheet and add a few values into cells. Now open the XML and find the values and change them. Now try to load the document and you get errors.

NOXML is created to protect MS not to be open. They dont even support the ISO standard they purchased and are going to give native support for ODF BEFORE the ISO OXML standard.

So what program do you recommend?
Openoffice
Or
Office 2003

If I use openoffice will I still be able to open up office 2003 files with it as we don't use openoffice in school, we use Office 2003.

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I still prefer Office 2007

Sam, yes as far as I know its possible to open OpenOffice files on Office 2003 and 2007, as long as you put the same extensions on it (Office 2003/2007 extensions) .doc/.docx/etc

Use Office 2003 Lite, you won't need anything else. It's reliable, user friendly, and it only has 71.2 MB.

Hey.

Try renaming the docX file to .zip, and unpack the contents. Check if there are anything there that could help you to rewrite the whole thing faster.

You will see a pictures folder, a XML-folder, and a text-folder.

Docx is just a zip-container for the OOxml formatet XML-document.