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Office 2007 Compatibility Pack released
I'm in serious heads-down book writing mode but came up for air long enough to catch up on some RSS feeds and news before calling it a day and ran across the news that Microsoft has released a Compatibility Pack for Office 2000, XP, and 2003 that lets those older versions open, edit, and save to the new XML file formats used in Office 2007.It's a free download available in English, Japanese, French German, and Spanish and provides users of older Office versions to the following formats:Word.
I'm in serious heads-down book writing mode but came up for air long enough to catch up on some RSS feeds and news before calling it a day and ran across the news that Microsoft has released a Compatibility Pack for Office 2000, XP, and 2003 that lets those older versions open, edit, and save to the new XML file formats used in Office 2007.
It's a free download available in English, Japanese, French German, and Spanish and provides users of older Office versions to the following formats:
Word
- .docx—Microsoft Office Word 2007 document
- .docm—Microsoft Office Word 2007 macro-enabled document
PowerPoint
- .pptx—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation
- .pptm—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled presentation
- .potx—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 template
- .potm—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled template
- .ppsx—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 show
- .ppsm—Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled show
Excel
- .xlsb—Microsoft Office Excel 2007 binary workbook
- .xlsx—Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbook
- .xlsm—Microsoft Office Excel 2007 macro-enabled workbook
- .xltx—Microsoft Office Excel 2007 template
- .xltm—Microsoft Office Excel 2007 macro-enabled template
- .xlam—Microsoft Office Excel 2007 add-in
The download links and more information can be found here. Hat tip to Ryan at Download Squad.