A list of all the new file extensions used in Office 2007 Like most people we talk about the ‘.docx’ format as a shorthand way of referring to the new Office 2007 document formats. There are really many new document extensions. An innovation are document extensions that indicate if the contents can include macro / […]
We continue our series on the Office 12 document format with a look at how open the new format will really be. Some good news about the password and encryption integrity of the new format plus our opinion of the whole shebang. We continue our series on the Office 12 document format with a look […]
We explain more about Office and XML documents, which exist now for Word 2003 and Excel 2003 but will be improved upon and made the default file format for Office 12. Over in our other newsletter Office for Mere Mortals (our companion newsletter for beginners) last week we talked about the basic difference between Word […]
In Office 12 the new OfficeML default document formats will be revised to include ZIP compression to make the documents smaller. The news about the next version of Office, aka Office 12, continues even though the release is probably a year away. Unlike most of these announcements, this one has some substance and it looks […]
About the rival document formats coming soon … OPENDOCUMENT VS OFFICE 2007 DOCS While most of the talk has been about the upcoming document format change in Office 2007 there are also a competitive set of Office file formats to consider. The OpenDocument format is internationally recognized standard for Office documents for text, spreadsheets, presentations, […]