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Howdy Y'all;

My issue is that most (all) of the other members of my wife's business group use Microsoft Word and their 'docx' files for compilation and interactive reports. We had been using an old copy of Word 2007 but it seems that our copy has become a 'read-only' version and we need to save our work in a docx type file.
How can my non-techy wife easily do this as it is not an option on the 'Save-As' drop down list?
I used to be able to understand all of this stuff before I had a few strokes.

Thanks for anything you can suggest to help me out.

OpenOffice doesn't have the ability to save as .docx. You have a number of alternatives:

• MS Office since around 2007 can read .odt files
• Save as Microsoft Word 97 .doc
• If colleagues don't need to edit, export as PDF
• Use LibreOffice which can save in .docx format

See [Tutorial] Differences between Writer and MS Word files for why you should always work in and save files as .odt.

MS Word can both read and write .odt files.

How can my non-techy wife easily do this as it is not an option on the 'Save-As' drop down list?

The easy way is to use LibreOffice and set DOCX as the default file type. The matter is that this way is totally unsafe, see John_Ha's answer. If you really need DOCX and don't want to loose your data, do all your work in ODF and only after finalizing it export to DOCX.