PROBLEM WITH MS-OFFICE 2007

“Way to go Microsoft! Lets create software that doesn’t work with our own other software.”

PROBLEM

Microsoft has released Microsoft Office 2007 Systems and Suites for Windows. However, the new Office 2007 is using new Office Open XML Formats as the default format for popular business productivity suites. Thus, instead of usual 3-character extension, Office 2007 now uses 4-character extension to identify and differentiate the Office 2007 files, such as Word .docx, Excel .xclx and Powerpoint .pptx. The new XML format for the Office documents is not backward compatible, which means the new files or documents created with Office 2007 will not be able to open with previous version of Office editor or viewer directly.

If you are a lucky user [ ;- ) ] who has upgraded to Office 2007, you must be experiencing this problem.

SOLUTION

To solve this” files and documents compatibility issues”, Microsoft has released Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats as the solution or workaround for previous version of Office users. Users of Microsoft Office XP (Word XP, Excel XP, and PowerPoint XP), Office 2003 programs (Word 2003, Excel 2003, and PowerPoint 2003) or Office 2000 programs (Word 2000, Excel 2000, and PowerPoint 2000) can download and install this compatibility pack.

DOWNLOAD LINK : Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack (FileFormatConverters.exe)

To open, view, read, create, edit or save the 2007 versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files in Office 2003, XP or 2000, after installing the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, simply double click on the documents, workbooks or files, or click on Save button. You can create a new 2007 XML format documents too by open a new blank document or workbook or presentation, and store the file by clicking on Save. For Excel 2000 and PowerPoint 2000, users will need to right click on an Excel 2000 file or a PowerPoint 2000 file and click on Save As.

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