The X Files: Understanding and Using Word's New File Format
Herb Tyson · 2010
This chapter explains the advantages of Word's new .docx and .docm file formats. It includes increased openness, more compact file size, more robustness and resistance to document corruption, ZIP format provides additional ways to access and maintain document content, backward-compatibility with the previous format, Free Compatibility Pack for Word 2002 and 2003 users, ability to modify Word 2010 files without using Word.