A DOCX editor for the documents that land in your inbox
Most people looking for a DOCX editor have a Word file in hand and no office suite to open it with, or they only need one or two jobs done: fix a paragraph, check what a colleague changed, send a clean copy. DOCX Editor is a Windows word processor built around exactly those jobs, using its own document engine.
It opens DOCX along with DOC, DOCM, DOTX, DOT, RTF, plain text, HTML and Word XML. The ribbon has the tabs you would expect, Home, Insert, Layout, Mailings, Review and View, with headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes, tables, pictures, bookmarks, page numbers, columns, borders and shading, and a table of contents.
Above the page sits a running count of your edits. Click it and a list headed Save will write lists each change since the last save, so nothing goes into the file that you did not mean to put there.
How to open a DOCX file and save it in another format
Choose Open… (Ctrl+O) and pick the file. Edit as normal, then pick where it goes next:
- Save (Ctrl+S) keeps it as DOCX.
- Save as… (Ctrl+Shift+S) writes DOCX, DOC, RTF, TXT or HTML.
- Export as PDF… makes a fixed copy for sending or printing.
- Export to another format… adds ODT, Markdown and Word XML.
Compare two Word documents and review every change
Got back a file with no tracked changes and no idea what moved? On the Review tab, choose Compare with… and pick the other version. The differences come back as ordinary tracked changes: insertions, deletions and reworded passages, which you step through with Accept and Reject, or settle with Accept all and Reject all.
For your own edits, turn on Track changes and add comments with New comment. Enter Your name in Settings and it appears on each comment and revision you make.
Remove metadata from a Word document before you send it
A file can carry more than its visible text: leftover comments, unresolved revisions, hidden text and properties such as author, last saved by, company, title and manager. Clean before sending, on the Review tab, lists what this document contains and lets you choose what to take out before a contract or proposal leaves your hands.
Mail merge from Excel into letters or PDFs
On the Mailings tab, Pick recipients… takes an XLSX, XLS or CSV file. Insert merge field drops a column into the text, a preview steps through each record, and Finish merge produces one combined document, a single PDF, or one file for every row named from a column you pick.
