Comments on: Open Office 2007 Files in Mac OS X – Office 2004 for Mac Compatibility Issue Alternative

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:30:20 +0000

I meant to say,
“Forward INcompatibility is common since software makers often don’t support to their older software.”

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:28:35 +0000

Backward compatibility normally refers to the software application, not the documents that they create. Thus the correct statement would have been to say, “Office 2004 on the Mac is not forward compatible with .docx files created by Office 2007″. Forward compatibility is common since software makers often don’t support to their older software.

As far as backward compatibility goes I have run into this problem as well. I have found that Word 2007 users on Windows can not open my .doc files created by Word v.X on a Mac. That is true backward incompatibility!

By: raihan hasnain

raihan hasnain — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:00:00 +0000

Pages [iWork08] supports docx. Neo Office works fine as well.

By: Mark’s (we)Blog » Open XML documents driving me insane on the Mac

Mark’s (we)Blog » Open XML documents driving me insane on the Mac — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:34:18 +0000

[...] Digital Life has information on the various options for working with Open XML in Office 2004 for Mac. Mac Mojo (the Mac Office team blog) has information about a beta converter for Word documents [...]

By: Jason A. Quest

Jason A. Quest — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:22:28 +0000

Why wait for Mac Office or the X11 OpenOffice, when the current version of NeoOffice has full support for .DOCX and the other Office 2007 formats?

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People Over Process » Blog Archive » links for 2007-05-31 — Thu, 31 May 2007 07:23:30 +0000

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By: Valter Ballantini

Valter Ballantini — Tue, 22 May 2007 21:26:33 +0000

Or use NeoOffice, that allow you to read, edit and save in another format ***x files.

Valter

By: Dave Conrad

Dave Conrad — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:46:04 +0000

FYI. There is another solution for Mac users who receive Office 2007 files. MacLinkPlus software by DataViz will allow anyone using a Mac to view Office 2007 (Work & Excel) files that come in via email or other means. Thanks!

Dave