Office 2003 Support for Open XML

As many know, you can download and install the “Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 file formats”, which allows you to use Office 2003 to read and write Open XML documents.  The compatibility pack download is here.

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Blog TOCThere are some aspects of Open XML markup that are not supported by Office 2003, as Office 2003 doesn’t have the corresponding features.  You can find details of what’s supported and what’s not here.

There’s also some great information on the compatibility pack on the Microsoft Office Word Team’s blog.

No news here – just posting here so that I’ll remember where all of this information is when I’m asked for it.

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 12, 2009
  I know Eric that's not your primary domain of expertise, but if you need to open ODF documents, go get the "OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-ins for Office", over here http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/ and check the demo over there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKF1KYNY1uo

• Anonymous
  February 13, 2009
  Thanks, JC, good information to have... -Eric