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« on: November 09, 2009, 09:27:10 AM »
huh. never knew that.
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« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2009, 12:32:09 PM »
I din't either ... I thought it was straight up XML.
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« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2009, 12:33:39 PM »
Similar format for everything nowadays. Just like a Java app - it's a compressed bunch of files. Some of them contain the XML that lays out the schema, some of them contain the binary data, etc.
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« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2009, 11:31:59 AM »
yeah, you can read it 'straight-up' with ultraedit. I was forced into handling them a little over a year ago when I hired some freelance writers from the print world.

there's a free (win os) docx to rtf here:
http://www.nativewindsofmontana.com/downloads/Docx2Rtf.zip

(site is now packed this pharm links, but I assume the software is still ok)
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