Comments on: Open, View, Edit, and Save Office 2007 Documents, Spreadsheets, Workbooks, and Presentations in Office 2003, XP or 2000

By: CCC

CCC — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:09:35 +0000

sam dhabi:

You idiot, why a old software should read new formats? MS has make the compatibale formats for office xp, 2000, 2003 already, isn’t it good enough? You want to alwasys keep using the old, inefficient format? This is ridiculous. Even new PDF cannot be read by the older Readers, what do you expect?

You told us you don’t have the right to install the service pack in your office? Then why do you think you have the right to install linux (have you even used it before)? This is just ridiculous. Stop complaining and being childish.

By: Arunkumar

Arunkumar — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:10:30 +0000

i am having set of xlsx and pptx files, need to convert those to xls and ppt. but the command line is not doing any help.

for the the xlsx i tried

c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12>excelcnv -oice c:\xl.xlsx c:\xl.xls

it gives out a xl.xls but its just the copy of my input xlsx file when i open that file in the office 2000 it gives error. i just renamed the xl.xls to xl.zip, now i can see the xmls inside. so it just created the copy of my input file and renamed it to xl.xls.

Any help on this highly appreciated.

Thanks

By: sam dhabi

sam dhabi — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:46:36 +0000

hmm, well done microsoft. You release a piece of software that can’t be opened on earlier versions. In my office I have no rights to install this service pack….so where does that leave me? Well, i think i might petition our company to start using open source software like linux and open office…they even make their software readable on microsofts programmes, whereas micrsoft can’t even do it for themselves…..lol..we should all boycott microdoft due to their incredible ineptitude.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:21:40 +0000

PCs suck. and so does microsoft!

By: John Doe

John Doe — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:29:31 +0000

windows works fine… Macs are for dummy.

By: iain

iain — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:02:52 +0000

in an ideal world everyone would have updraded to vista???? Are you serious?

In an ideal world …. microsoft would be able to make descent software that was useful and compatible

In an ideal world everyone would be informed and be buying systems that worked ie Macs

By: steve

steve — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:04:25 +0000

i use 98se and office 2000. are there other converters i can use?

By: Change Office 2007 Default File Save Formats and Extensions using Group Policy (GPO) » My Digital Life

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:23:58 +0000

[...] Office files between various version of Office 2007, 2003 and 2002 (XP), Microsoft has released Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, which when installed on the computers of users using Microsoft Office 2003 or Office XP (2002), [...]

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:06:33 +0000

Have you read the above?

Tell the person who wants to open it to download the compatibility pack, or else save it as ppt file instead of pptx.

By: Srinivas

Srinivas — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:12:42 +0000

Hi,

I had made a powerpoint presentation using MS office 2007.It can’t be opened in lower versions.Help me to convert it in such a way so that it can be opened.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:15:25 +0000

I am suffering from the reverse problem: opening Powerpoint 2003 files in 2007, the alignment of all text is out vertically both on screen and when I print. Very weird, and no idea how to fix it.

By: phil2627

phil2627 — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:48:24 +0000

Nagesh, THANK YOU. I thought I was the only who knew about this.

By: Nagesh Ganji

Nagesh Ganji — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:53:17 +0000

WE can change the default file format in word 2007. Since *.docx files can not be opened in older versions of Office Word, do these in word 2007

1) Open word 2007, goto menu File -> SaveAs

2) On “SaveAS” popup window, drop down the options in “Tools” (just aside “Save” button).

3) goto “Save options..”

4) chose “Word97-2003 Document(.doc)” option under “Save files in this format:”.

By: Travis

Travis — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:11:19 +0000

Software evolves, it’s part of improving. Mac is about as proprietary as something can get, so why complain about a new file format in new version of Office? As the article states, there are converter packs available for the older versions.

Plus, Office 2007 allows you to save your documents in the old format, in case you’re sharing your documents with a computer user that is afraid of change (and therefore should not be using a computer anyway).

By: Wayne Page

Wayne Page — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:49:06 +0000

Agree. I was blindsided by a “strange” 4 alpha extension document the other day, with not a hint of warning from MS’s publicity machine that older version of Word would not be able to read the Office 2007 formats.

Amazing. The company just continue to blow holes in it’s overpriced feet time and again. I’m setting aside part of my day now to find the patch for 2003 Word that will allow me to read in the new docx and docm extensions (if MS has released one). Meanwhile, I blew a deadline to respond to a client using MS 2007 because of this new “advance” in Word processing “security.”

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:10:35 +0000

Way to go Microsoft! Lets create software that doesn’t work with our other software. Yet another fine example of your inept and incompetent ability to create software, that well… just sucks.

Get on the ball, pull the fingers out or your a$$e$, and develop translators for the Mac to open 2007 XML files. End of story.