is there zip functionality in Word?

[emac]

is there zip / unzip functionality or capability in Word?

 

[Yves Dhondt]

A Word 2007 document (extension docx) is essentially a zip file. That is, if
you change the docx into zip, you can open the archive and find a bundle of
mostly xml files in it. As you can insert an object/file inside a Word
document, Word has to have zip capabilities to store the file inside the
archive.

You can test this yourself by creating an empty Word document in which you
insert a large non compressed file (for example a doc file). Once saved, the
size of the docx file is most likely going to be smaller than the size of
the original doc file.

So yes Word contains zip/unzip functionality, but it is not like you can
access it.

Are you trying to achieve something specific?

Yves

 

[Stefan Blom]

No, but there is in Windows: Select files, right-click and choose Send To |
Compressed (zipped) Folder.

Alternatively, you can install other software that does the job (such as
WinZip).

 

[Dave E]

The short answer is, No.

If you don't have a program like WinZip installed, then Windows should still
be able to open the file so you can get to the documents inside.

But the weird thing is... Would you believe that your .docx files actually
ARE zip files? A single Word .docx document is actually a collection of XML
files stored in an archive file (like a .zip file). If you rename
"your_document.docx" to "your_document.zip" you can open the document's
archive and see all the magic stuff inside. It's pretty cool (and geeky at
the same time).

 

[Stefan Blom]

I forgot to mention that opening zip files in (recent versions of) Windows
is just a matter of double-clicking them.