North West Translators' Network » All Posts https://nwtn.org.uk/forums/forum/tips-tricks/feed/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:15:56 +0000 https://bbpress.org/?v=2.6.14 en-GB https://nwtn.org.uk/forums/topic/ms-office-files-are-zip-files/#post-3251 <![CDATA[MS office files are zip files]]> https://nwtn.org.uk/forums/topic/ms-office-files-are-zip-files/#post-3251 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 17:14:55 +0000 Markus Henseler The no longer so new MS office files (ie. ending with an x like docx, xlsx, pptx etc. are actually renamed Zip files. You can open them with your favourite zip app (if you rely on the zip app built into Windows get a proper one; I highly recommend 7-Zip). Just drag&drop it in or use the context menu to open a file as archive.

If you insist in using Windows’ excuse for a zip app you’ll have to add .zip to the file name to be able to open it?.

“What you can do with this information?” you might ask. I use it sometimes to easily extract embedded stuff like images, excel file within word files …

There loads of other file formats where you can do the same. Be adventurous. You’ll never know what you’ll find until you tried. What for instance with memoq or trados packages …

]]> https://nwtn.org.uk/forums/topic/unprotect-word-document/#post-3250 <![CDATA[Unprotect Word document]]> https://nwtn.org.uk/forums/topic/unprotect-word-document/#post-3250 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 17:04:41 +0000 Markus Henseler This applies to all Word file which can be opened without a password.
Protections in Word (except the open file protection) can be easily removed when you

  • save the file as RTF,
  • open the file in text mode (it’s plain ASCII), then
  • edit the RTF code, save and close it,
  • open it again as RTF and save it in the original format.

Look out for the string “prot” when editing the RTF code.

Click to download a PDF with step-by-step instructions.

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