Microsoft Office 2007 Viewer: View or Edit new file formats using Viewers

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October 7, 2008 ||

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Microsoft 2007 Viewer

Microsoft Office 2007 introduced new file formats based on XLM and ZIP technologies which can do much more than the old formats. The new formats were introduced keeping in mind the open standards and adopting XML-based file formats and the applications carrying new formats are Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 and Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Visit Microsoft Library to know more about 2007 Open XML file formats.

These technical advancements don’t mean much to users like you and I who put these applications to regular use for just storing information. One of the only reasons users usually dwell into the new formats is when it fails to open in the previous versions of Microsoft Office, namely Office XP, Office 2003, etc..

Word Viewer 2007 To solve this issue Microsoft has introduced viewers and converts for Microsoft Office 2007 file formats. PowerPoint viewer, Word Viewer and Excel Viewer all of these application let you open Office 2007 documents (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) without having to upgrade to office 2007.

Viewers just let you open and view office 2007 documents but the Office 2007 compatibility pack lets you open, edit and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.

Click here to download compatibility pack for Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 file formats.

PowerPoint Viewer All said and done about the Office Viewers and Converters if you are not too inclined to download and install a software to convert here is an online service which does in online. ZAMZAR.com offers conversion of various file types including Office word 2007 (.docx), Office Excel 2007 (.xlsx), and PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) and its completely free.