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Help recovering a strange word file format
About 2 weeks ago I submitted a word document for an upper level marketing class and have recently needed to access the document. However I lost the original file after switching operating systems an...
fjohnson8 Select all of those files and then right click, while hovering over the word folder and click on Send to and select Compressed (zipped) folder
That will result in a word.zip file being created
If you change the extension of that file to docx, you will be able to open it in Word. You will need to click on Yes in the Rename dialog that appears.
By way of explanation, a Word document is actually a zip archive containing the various components that constitute the document.
NOTE: There is however a problem with the files that you uploaded and while the re-zipped file can be opened in Google Docs, it cannot be opened in Word. However, I have uploaded a pdf file created from the document opened in Google Docs.