Office 12 docx files are zips in disguise

Posted By: JD Lewin | Jun 22nd, 2007 @ 4:46 PM

Take any document created in an Office 12 app, rename said document with a .zip extension, and browse that file’s contents from Windows Explorer. Welcome to the magic of Office’s XML implementation, where every document is simply a bundle of XML data. This little hack will provide you hours of needless content-editing fun for those who have Office 12 installed, as well as a sneaky way to replace the images in your coworker’s trip report with photos of our favorite popular music star.

Tags: hacks, Office, XML

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LZIM

which was obvious when you first saw that your docx files were not only no longer backwards compatible but 2/3 smaller than the doc you opened then saved as docx.

Dengin

At least you didn't rickroll us with that link