Opening Microsoft Office 2007 documents in Office 2003

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With the new Microsoft Office 2007 release, comes new file formats. And with new file formats come the questions “but what the hell happened with the concept of backward compatibility?”, and “is this Microsoft’s strategy to force everyone to move up to Office 2007?”.

Whatever the case is, Microsoft has not done a good job letting people know about the availability of a plug-in that allows users of Office 2003 (and older), called the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats, to open the 2007 file formats. From the Microsoft download web site:

By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. The Compatibility Pack can also be used in conjunction with the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new formats.

Download Office 2007 Compatibility Pack.

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  3. Hey!
    Thanks for this part…. i slogged and prepared a presentation on O2K7 at home and was let down by this by finding out my files do not open with O2K3 version… :( now i think i can solve this compatibility problem… Thanks once again…

  4. i prepared my documents and spreadsheets by using office 2003, recently due to virus, i formatted my system. Due to non availability of office 2003 software, i installed office xp in my system and when i opened the previous files prepared in office 2003 to my surprise, i lost some data in the files. how to recover, somebody please tell me as soon as possible

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