If you haven't had a chance to install Office on your computer, you can use the built-in WordPad editor in Windows 7 to open and save DOCX files. Follow the article below to learn how to do this.
Guide to opening and saving DOCX format using WordPad
Opening an existing file
Method 1: Start the WordPad program.
Step 1: Go to (1) File → (2) Open.
Step 2: Navigate to the location where the file is stored → Open.
Method 2:
Step 1: Locate the file you want to open.
Step 2: Right-click on the file you want to open → (1) Open with → (2) WordPad.
Saving in DOCX format
After finishing composing your text using Wordpad, to save the text in .docx format, follow these steps.
Go to (1) File → (2) Save as → (3) Office Open XML Document
The above article aims to introduce you to how to open and save files in DOCX format when you don't have Microsoft Office 2007 using WordPad software. We hope this article will be helpful to you.
