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Use Microsoft Office 2007 Files with Older Office Versions

Microsoft Office 2007 will be released on Monday (Jan. 29). Be prepared to say goodbye to the good ol' three letter filename extensions : DOC, XLS, PPT. And, welcome in the new four letter file name extensions: DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX (among other extensions).

So, what happens if you aren't upgrading your Office version and receive one of these new file types? If you are using Office 2000, XP (2002), or 2003, you may want to take a look at the free...

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats

...provided by Microsoft. If you use Office 95 or 97, you may need to coordinate with the 2007 user to export a version on their end that you can read. You may also want to consider upgrading to at least Office 2003 just to get security upgrades.

how can we converted this

how can we converted this xlsx file into xls. I get the problem while work. I am using this xlsx,docx file which is not open in other computer having office 2003. Please send the solution regarding about this, otherwise i have to remove this office 2007 from my computer.

If you have office 2007,

If you have office 2007, simply save the file as XLS, you can choose the format from the dropdown box.

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i want to open *.xlsx file

i want to open *.xlsx file

Tarun: There are two ways to

Tarun: There are two ways to open an .XLSX (2007) Excel File: 1. Use Excel 2007. 2. Use the add-on for older versions of Office described in this blog item.

The Office 2007 components

The Office 2007 components (Word, Excel, etc.) has the ability to write older formats (DOC, XLS, PPT).

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