From: emac on 3 Mar 2010 14:56 is there zip / unzip functionality or capability in Word?
From: Stefan Blom on 3 Mar 2010 15:10 No, but there is in Windows: Select files, right-click and choose Send To | Compressed (zipped) Folder. Alternatively, you can install other software that does the job (such as WinZip). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "emac" <emac(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:948E5DE7-8D67-457E-B4A2-956FC76CF0E7(a)microsoft.com... > is there zip / unzip functionality or capability in Word?
From: Yves Dhondt on 3 Mar 2010 15:08 A Word 2007 document (extension docx) is essentially a zip file. That is, if you change the docx into zip, you can open the archive and find a bundle of mostly xml files in it. As you can insert an object/file inside a Word document, Word has to have zip capabilities to store the file inside the archive. You can test this yourself by creating an empty Word document in which you insert a large non compressed file (for example a doc file). Once saved, the size of the docx file is most likely going to be smaller than the size of the original doc file. So yes Word contains zip/unzip functionality, but it is not like you can access it. Are you trying to achieve something specific? Yves "emac" <emac(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:948E5DE7-8D67-457E-B4A2-956FC76CF0E7(a)microsoft.com... > is there zip / unzip functionality or capability in Word?
From: Stefan Blom on 3 Mar 2010 15:21 I forgot to mention that opening zip files in (recent versions of) Windows is just a matter of double-clicking them. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Stefan Blom" <StefanBlom(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:udOJd0wuKHA.5008(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > No, but there is in Windows: Select files, right-click and choose Send To > | Compressed (zipped) Folder. > > Alternatively, you can install other software that does the job (such as > WinZip). > > -- > Stefan Blom > Microsoft Word MVP > > > > "emac" <emac(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:948E5DE7-8D67-457E-B4A2-956FC76CF0E7(a)microsoft.com... >> is there zip / unzip functionality or capability in Word? > >
From: Dave E on 3 Mar 2010 15:21 The short answer is, No. If you don't have a program like WinZip installed, then Windows should still be able to open the file so you can get to the documents inside. But the weird thing is... Would you believe that your .docx files actually ARE zip files? A single Word .docx document is actually a collection of XML files stored in an archive file (like a .zip file). If you rename "your_document.docx" to "your_document.zip" you can open the document's archive and see all the magic stuff inside. It's pretty cool (and geeky at the same time). "emac" wrote: > is there zip / unzip functionality or capability in Word?
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