docX to doc coverter--need answer fast!

Factual Questions
1

Somebody just sent me a document in the new docX format.
I tried downloading from Cnet. com a couple of programs that promised to covert the file to regular doc format, or rtf.
One of the programs, after I installed it, wanted …gasp…money!
And another one contained a file called docx2rtf.exe.manifest . I have no idea what a manifest file is…but it sounds suspicious, so I didnt install it.

Surely there’s a simple way to open the document, and millions of people are laughing at me for not knowing how.
HELP !
All I want to do is read a friend’s email attachment, dammit. Why is the world so complicated?

2

The best thing is to download and install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats.

3

Do you have any version of Office?

4

Gmail can read it. I get doc-x on my boss’s computer, that I have to forward to my gmail account to print. There’s also a website, free, docxconverter.com, that will email you back the converted document, takes a reasonable amount of time (something under an hour iirc).

5

Thanks! it worked fine.