Complete Newbie
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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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npp isn’t the right tool to do that.
LibreOffice or OpenOffice can handle .docx files very well.Cheers
Claudia -
@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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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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