.docx file format
View, inspect, clean, extract, and prepare DOCX Word documents directly in your browser.
Also known as: Word
Format
.docx
Original files stay unchanged. Tools download a new file when output is generated.
Every tool listed here works with .docx files and runs in your browser. If the task you need is not here, the related formats below may cover it.
Open and preview DOCX document files in your browser.
Find and remove images from a Word document locally in your browser.
Find document images, preview thumbnails, and export selected images from a Word document.
Find hyperlinks in a Word document and remove selected links while keeping the file usable.
Find, inspect, copy, and export links from a Word document.
Find email addresses in a Word document and export them as clean text or CSV.
Find email addresses in a Word document and remove or replace them before sharing.
View and remove hidden metadata from a Word document before sharing.
Extract readable text from a Word document and copy or download it.
Find comments, notes, and annotations in a Word document and remove selected items.
Run a document cleanup checklist for images, links, emails, metadata, comments, and hidden content.
The format is a ZIP archive containing XML. The text lives in word/document.xml, images in word/media/, comments in word/comments.xml, and document properties in docProps/. Once you know that, it is clear why some things survive a "Save As" that you might expect it to remove — they are separate files inside the package.
docProps/core.xml holds the creator, the name of whoever saved it last, a revision count, and creation and modification timestamps. docProps/app.xml adds the authoring application, total editing time, and a Company field taken from the Office licence. Internal usernames and machine names routinely leak this way.
Clearing document properties does nothing to review history. Comments are their own part of the package and tracked insertions and deletions are marked up inline in the document body. If the concern is that a recipient can see who objected to what, that is a separate cleanup step from removing metadata.
Cropping a picture in Word is a display instruction. The full original image usually remains in word/media/ at its original resolution, so a cropped-out face or an adjacent column of a screenshot is still recoverable. Compressing pictures with "delete cropped areas" removes it; nothing else does.
Because a .docx is a ZIP package, the images inside it are ordinary files that can be copied out at their original quality. That matters when the document is the only remaining copy of a chart or a logo: extraction returns the file somebody originally inserted, at full resolution, rather than the screenshot you would otherwise be stuck with.
image1.png (10.4 KB) and image2.png (13.6 KB)
| Measure | After |
|---|---|
| Source document | sample-report.docx, 23.1 KB |
| Images found | 2 |
| Fidelity | Byte-identical to the embedded originals |
Yes. The format is an open standard and a browser-based viewer can read the document XML directly, which is useful on a phone or a machine without Office.
No. They are stored in a different part of the package. Remove comments as a separate step, or use the Clean DOCX checklist to handle both.
No. The old .doc format is a binary format with a completely different structure. Open it in a word processor and save as .docx first.
Yes — saving in Word repopulates the last-editor field. Clean the copy you are about to send, and do not re-save it in Word afterwards.
Background on the problems these tools solve, with worked examples.
Find and strip the author names, edit time, company fields, and comments that a .docx carries after Save As, and understand what Word's own cleanup misses.
A short pre-send checklist for PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files: what to look at, in what order, and which checks people usually skip.