Sep
17th
2013
How did I even do this? · 4:41am Sep 17th, 2013
I... have no idea how I just managed to do this, but I somehow changed all my Word files to docx format. On both my computer AND my flash drive. Now whenever I try to open them I'm told I need Office 2010, which I don't have and really can't afford right now.
I thankfully can still get into my PDFs and RTF format files, but I'm going to need to copy and save literally EVERYTHING I wrote over in the new format. And that's not counting the stuff I've written and had only on my computer, which is now seemingly gone forever.
Really, if anyone knows how to 'de-format' files back into a form usable by Word Starter 2010 and can explain it simply (I'm not very tech-adept), I will be vastly in your debt.
You can download a free program from Microsoft's website called Word Viewer. The current version of Word Viewer will allow you to open .docx files and copy the text into a new document.
Can you try uploading them to google docs?
1357247 I don't know, I'll have to see. I did get help from some other folks off-site so I can at least read the stuff. Thanks for the advice.
1355574 Thanks for the advice, I'll take a look at it. Right now I'm reading them with Open Office that I got at the advice of a writing friend of mine.