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How to open Office 2007 Word, Excel and PowerPoint files in Office 2003 and Office XP

This is a straight lift from a recent TechNet newsletter, but if you don't get it...

Microsoft has added new file formats to the 2007 Microsoft Office system to reduce file sizes, improve the recovery of corrupted or damaged files, and improve integration with external sources. The Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 file formats (Beta 2) ensures that users of Microsoft Office XP and Office 2003 can exchange documents between Office releases. Get more information on the Open XML file format page. 

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David

Posted Sat, Jul 22 2006 7:42 PM by David Overton
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David Spector wrote re: How to open Office 2007 Word, Excel and PowerPoint files in Office 2003 and Office XP
on Mon, Aug 14 2006 1:48 PM

I've been searching for some way to give Microsoft a simple suggestion for Word. All I can find is support options that cost big bucks! I know this isn't relevant to your blog, but perhaps you will be a kind person who will send this suggestion to the proper place for me.

Anyway, my suggestion is very simple: Microsoft Word needs a new command-line option to open a file in read-only mode! It should create a read-only shortcut that uses it, when installed. More complex designs involving access rights might not be understood by new Office users or perceived as user-friendly.

(Sorry this isn't on the cutting edge, but I think protection from changing the contents of a document has its place.)

David

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