Question: Need something to convert .doc to .docx. I need .docx for school, my program only does .doc are they the same or what? How can I change my doc to docx file. Do I need to update my MS Office or download OpenOffice? Is there a better solution on VeryDOC?
Answer: When you need to convert doc to docx under the circumstance that you do not have MS Office 2010 or OpenOffice installed, please have a free trial of software VeryDOC DOC to Any Converter Command Line v3.5. The latest version of this software can help you change MS Office file version from MS Office 2003 to MS Office 2o10, which means you can convert doc to docx, XLS to XLSX and so on so forth without depending MS Office or OpenOffice installed.
By the older version, you can not make it. When converting doc to docx file by the older version of Doc to Any Converter, you need to install MS Office 2007 or later version. By now all those installations could be saved. Simply add one parameter –nooffice, the conversion could be done by VeryPDF's Document analysis conversion engine. Please check more information of latest version DOC to Any Converter Command Line v3.5 on update note, in the following part, I will show you how to make it work.
Step 1. Download DOC to Any Converter Command Line v3.5.
- Same with the older version, it is still command line version software. When downloading, it is still a zip file. When downloading finishes, please extract it to some folder then you can run the conversion from MS Dos Windows.
- When extraction finishes, please check readme.txt carefully. Please run the conversion according to the usage and examples.
Step 2. Convert doc to docx without depending MS Office or OpenOffice.
- Here is the usage for your reference: doc2any [options] <in-file> [<out-file>]
- When converting doc to docx without depending MS Office or OpenOffice, please refer to the following command line template.
doc2any.exe -nooffice "C:\test.doc" "C:\out.docx"
When you need to run the conversion in batch, please using wild character or write bat file;
doc2any.exe -nooffice "C:\*.doc" "C:\*.docx"
By this command line template, we can convert file doc to docx in batch.
for %F in (D:\test\*.docx) do "doc2any.exe" -nooffice"%F" "%~dpnF.doc"
By this command line, we can convert doc to docx file automatically. And all the input doc file in the specified folder will be converted to docx file automatically.
Here is the parameter explanation:
-nooffice : Don't use MS Office and OpenOffice at all, use VeryPDF's Document analysis technologies
When we developing this software, we used special technologies and special engine, so the conversion could be done perfectly without depending on any third party application.
By this software, you can change Office version casually to cater different user needs. During the using, if you have any question, please contact us as soon as possible.