How Do I Convert XML to Word?

Synful · #1 01-26-2012, 09:00 PM

OH! It worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!

Now, why the heck would one day these be perfectly normal Word documents one day and then the next they turn into XML folders?

I really appreciate your help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by macropod

Hi Synful,

In Windows 7, zip files can be opened from Windows Explorer just like a folder, even though they're actually a single file containing compressed copies of one or more other files.

What you can do is:
1. Open a given document's folder using Windows Explorer.
2. Select all files & folders within that folder (eg Ctrl-A).
3. With Windows Explorer use Send To > Compressed (zipped) folder.
4. Give the new zipped file the same name as its parent folder and a docx extension.
5. Drag the new zipped file out of the existing folder into, say, your 'My Documents' folder.
6. Check that the new file opens in Word and, if so, delete the errant folder.

macropod · #2 01-26-2012, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Synful

Now, why the heck would one day these be perfectly normal Word documents one day and then the next they turn into XML folders?

I could only speculate - it's not something I've ever encountered.

Enjoy.

Redvers · #3 11-04-2012, 03:01 AM

Sorry to revive an old thread but I have recently experienced this same problem, but the fix suggested doesn't work.

One day almost all my word documents changed to have the file extension .XML. What is further strange, is the icon for the .XML files can be one of two pictures, colour or Final Cut Pro. The file even has in the description "Kind: Color XML or Kind: FCP XML" I cannot begin to understand what has happened.

I have FCP on a Mac laptop, but these word files were made on a windows laptop at work, and saved on an external HD which I have formatted for Mac and Windows. These files of course were saved on the windows partition.

The only contact they have had with my mac machine is my plugging in the external HD and copying some of the files over to take a look outside work hours.

Now these files are utterly bizarre and have names such as:

Monthly CMD Performance.xls.XML

Then you got ones which are NAME.doc.XML

.url.XML

And hundreds more...

What in blazes has happened, and how would I fix it?

Wyp1003 · #4 11-23-2014, 07:17 AM

I am having the same problem.. anyone can help??

Quote:

Originally Posted by Redvers

Sorry to revive an old thread but I have recently experienced this same problem, but the fix suggested doesn't work.

One day almost all my word documents changed to have the file extension .XML. What is further strange, is the icon for the .XML files can be one of two pictures, colour or Final Cut Pro. The file even has in the description "Kind: Color XML or Kind: FCP XML" I cannot begin to understand what has happened.

I have FCP on a Mac laptop, but these word files were made on a windows laptop at work, and saved on an external HD which I have formatted for Mac and Windows. These files of course were saved on the windows partition.

The only contact they have had with my mac machine is my plugging in the external HD and copying some of the files over to take a look outside work hours.

Now these files are utterly bizarre and have names such as:

Monthly CMD Performance.xls.XML

Then you got ones which are NAME.doc.XML

.url.XML

And hundreds more...

What in blazes has happened, and how would I fix it?

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