Office 365 Questions
I purchased Microsoft Office 365 when I got a new computer after my laptop died. Why can't I open the Microsoft WORD documents that I had saved to flash drives?
Forum Discussion
HappyKayakers wrote:
I'd be interested in hearing what the current file types are that you're having problems with. Are they actually docx? Or something else?
You do have a valid point..
MS office general behavior is to save in the same file format of the original document that was opened..
example is opening a txt file, Word will choose to save in txt even if you use "save as"..
Open DOC file and save or save as should default to DOC..
Open DOCX and Word will default to DOCX for save and save as..
I suspect in OPs case they may be opening a ODT file and Word is defaulting to saving in ODT.. But even if this is the case, they should be able to select to save as a DOC or DOCX format and also be able to select "MY PC" and save to their "library" on their PC..
However, in all Office versions I have used, I know that you CAN also modify that behavior.. You can set the default save to ANY of the file extensions that Office supports..
For instance, when my company moved for Office 2000 to Office 2013, not everyone in the company had Office 2013 since it was a rolling change and could not open new DOCX files.. MS had not come out with the Compatibility pack for Office 2000 that gave the older OFFICE DOCX support at the time. I simply set the default file format to DOC and compatibility problem was solved..
OP may not actually be able to see what the real file extension at the end of the file since MS OS by default is set to HIDE "Extensions for known file types" which to me is a big security risk since you may unknowingly open a malicious file or attachment exe file (since the extensions are hidden you will never know that it is a executable program file).
Extensions for known file types can be easily unhidden safely..
