Convert WORD to DOTX

What is WORD file?

[ ⏩ ] WORD file extension

What is DOTX file?

The DOTX (Word .dotx Open XML Document Template) file extension is designed to work with Microsoft Word documents. This data format is a database-standard mark-up language, encoded into binary format that enables programs like Microsoft Word to access and display a wide variety of information. Description The DOTX file type is the default template format used in Office Open XML. It is based on XML, and . [ ⏩ ] DOTX file extension

How to convert the file from WORD to DOTX?

To successfully convert the WORD file to DOTX, you should install one of the applications from the list. After installing the software, open the program and select the file you want to convert (file-name.WORD). The next step is to select the target format from the list, in this case DOTX (usually converters allow you to convert to several different formats, so check out their features - maybe one of the available formats will suit you more than DOTX).

What is a file conversion?

A data conversion is normally an automated process to some extent. The effect of the operation of one program is automatically the input product of another application. If that does not happen we need to help the process a little bit and convert the file on our own, e.g. WORD to DOTX. To obtain a matched structure of the data, it is necessary to use an appropriate converter.

Program for converting WORD files to DOTX files is a kind of a "binary code translator" compensating for the differences in the code or translating it in such a way so that another application could use it. For us, as users, the visible change will be only another file extension. (After converting the file, it will be the extension DOTX, while before this step we had the WORD file). For the programs, the difference is on a much higher level – either the application will be able to open a new DOTX file, or not.

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