Comments on: Convert DOCX to DOC for free with your Mac

By: teilaRei

teilaRei — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:00:45 +0000

Pity the option does not preserve any formatting, images, equations or bibliography references… The result for highly formatted documents is even less usable than what you get with Save as… option…

By: CB

CB — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:06:05 +0000

Oh my god THANK YOU

By: humph

humph — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 20:45:38 +0000

Tried using the terminal got “Invalid output format.”
Tried using google docs got “File too big” (google docs only goes up to 2M)
Tried using opendocs got a file with no text and images all over the place.

I can get the text to at least appear in textEdit and the images are correctly formated in Pages…so a little time cutting and pasting I guess

By: Lisado

Lisado — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:26:17 +0000

I can open the document in Google Docs but when I try to download as a Word file, I am asked to download the dreaded converter software.
Any ideas?

By: Eleni

Eleni — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:10:45 +0000

GENIUS!!!! I am a Mac user and have been struggling w/ Docx. I love Google Documents now and found it because of you. Thanks!!!

By: PC

PC — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:06:12 +0000

Steve’s advice did it for me~ Google Docs is the way to go! who knew?! thanks

By: merseychic

merseychic — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:40:59 +0000

brilliant been struggling with this for a while as i am not used to doing this stuff might be worth pointing out for novices like me that the string has to macth the location of the file or copy yours and put the file in the documents folder thanks

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:14:59 +0000

I found that uploading to google docs and then downloading as a doc preserves images and layout, while TextEdit doesn’t.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:27:27 +0000

Thanks. Worked fine.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:44:45 +0000

But for the average Mac user, wouldn’t it be easier to open the docx in TextEdit & save as a .doc?

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Monday Morning News | MacTalk Australia — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:16:02 +0000

[...] Office, your Mac already has the ability to convert to .doc from the dreaded .docx format. By using a simple Terminal command, you’re simultaneously sticking it to the man and getting a usable Word [...]

By: adam

adam — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:54:55 +0000

Look nice tips, I will test, thanks
And use iconv to change encode :p

By: Conor

Conor — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:08:00 +0000

Just use open office and save them as .doc.

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By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:42:39 +0000

“As just a general Terminal tip, I would highly recommend using tab completion when entering in long directory strings and complex names, it’ll save you plenty of headaches.”

For the more gui-minder users, one can drag a file from the desktop or finder window onto the command line, and the file’s full path and file name will be automagically added to the command line. Thus one would type:
“textutil -convert doc ”
and then drag the file to be converted onto the terminal window.