Having trouble opening a file? It might have been saved in a file format that this version of Word doesn't support. Check the table below to see if that's the case.
File type | Open and edit | Open as Read-Only |
Word documents (.docx) | Yes | Yes |
Binary documents (.doc) | No | Yes |
Word templates (.dot) | Yes | Yes |
Binary templates (.dot) | Yes | Yes |
Macro-enabled documents (.docm) | No | Yes |
IRM-protected files | No | No |
OpenDocument text (.odt) | No | No |
PDF (.pdf) | No | No |
Rich text files (.rtf) | No | No |
Word XML, Word 2003 XML, or other XML files (.xml) | No | No |
Hypertext markup language (.htm, .html) | No | No |
Web pages (.mht, .mhtml) | No | No |
Plain text file (.txt) | No | No |
Works 6-9 documents (.wps) | No | No |