Well, actually :-) docx is a zipped container, so if you rename it as .zip and open that up, you can see the xml files inside there. No need to save as, it's a

Well, actually :-) docx is a zipped container, so if you rename it as .zip and open that up, you can see the xml files inside there. No need to save as, it's all right there as OpenXML [1]. If you save the doc as xml, there's some overlap, but that's an older technology called WordML [2]. I've spent way too much time creating spreadsheets on ancient legacy unix systems, in dozens of different ways. OpenXML is not the easiest, but it is the best of a lot of bad options... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats