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docx files are actually just compressed (zip) XML files.md

Opening a .docx file on a text editor won't mean anything, because a .docx file is a compressed file. To access the content in a .docx file, you can decompress it by running:

unzip path/to/file.docx

The better thing would be to create a directory and then run the command, in order for all files to be extracted to the same place:

mkdir document-contents
cd document-contents
unzip ../path/to/file.docx
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