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    • Amelia TriscoA
      Amelia Trisco
      last edited by

      Hi,
      I’ve recently installed Notepad++ and needed it edit the source code of a .docx Word Document file to change the internal ‘strings’ of text whilst maintaining the original outward appearance of the document. In order to do this do I need to convert the .docx to a .zip and then locate the ‘document.xtml’ folder or can I just put in the actual .docx to change the source code?

      Thanks in advance if you can help - this is kind of an obscure question.

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      • Claudia FrankC
        Claudia Frank @Amelia Trisco
        last edited by

        @Amelia-Trisco

        npp isn’t the right tool to do that.
        LibreOffice or OpenOffice can handle .docx files very well.

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • gstaviG
          gstavi
          last edited by

          @Amelia-Trisco
          After reading your question I googled a bit and found out that docx is indeed a zip file.
          While I agree with @Claudia-Frank that Notepad++ is not the ideal tool for them, if for some reason you want to use it then you will need to:

          • Unzip the docx file into some directory.
          • Edit the XML files that were extracted.
          • Rezip the files into docx and hope that everything is still consistent.
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          • Per IsaksonP
            Per Isakson
            last edited by

            @Amelia-Trisco

            If you want to interactively edit some string values, I think you should consider to use an XML Editor, e.g. XML Notepad. See: Comparison of XML editors

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