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by wesley.chin

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Office 2007 saves in a new proprietary format. there is a pack from MS to enable older versions of office to read 2007 files. My question is whether that is needed if SP3 is installed?

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by bincarnato

Doesn't matter what SP your earlier versions are at. The other option is to save the files in Office 2k7 in the earlier version format.

by wesley.chin

Thanks for the reply. My thinking was the same as yours, but it was based on logic. I tried to find something from MS that would verify my thinking, but was not able to find it. Were you able to find something like that?

by jwilliams

My reply was based on experience with the 2 software?s and the pain they can cause if you end up with a mixed environment.

by jwilliams

Yes, and it is best to get this for all 2003 or older software since a lot of people have already or plan to switch soon to 2007. If you have both kinds of software in your single environment then you should save all files in 97-2003 format in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and if applicable MS Project. It is possible to lose data when trying to open a document saved in 2007 format with 2003 or older software, and you will certainly lose some control to change the files with 2003 when it was saved in 2007.

by wesley.chin

This kind of makes me wonder how Openoffice handles it. Would it open 2007 format, with on loss of data or ability to edit? would it have the disadvantages of opening 2007 format in 2003?

by seanferd

or use a converter first. Some office programs based on OO have limited conversion capabilities.

MS still hasn't nailed down their own spec, so no one is going to be able to write to the final spec until MS releases it. Some converters can mostly handle it as it stands now, however.

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