MS .docx format: need to vent my anger

[PGTips]

And because it's XML which is basically plain text, it's nearly impossible to corrupt. I've worked with far too many Word documents that were corrupt and that resulted in the whole file being lost. No such problem here with XML, which I think is a huge huge benefit.

[kirktalon]

NeoOffice another natively running OpenOffice off shoot opens .docx documents. It is free. I have noticed that neither OpenOffice nor NeoOffice do well with very graphically complex .doc files.

[fryke]

Pages 3 opens *.docx as well, of course.