Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the new file formats of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.
We know that Microsoft's latest Office suite 2007 introduced the new Office Open XML format, resulting in backward compatibility, and older versions of Office cannot open documents created by Office 2007. Recently, Microsoft released the Office 2007 format compatibility pack, can solve this problem.
Office 2000, XP, or 2003 users who install the Office 2007 Format Compatibility pack can open, edit, and save new format files created by Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007.
The new formats compatible with Word are:
Word 2007 Document (*.docx)
Word 2007 document with macros enabled (*.docm)
The new formats compatible with Excel are:
Excel 2007 Binary Workbook (*.xlsb)
Excel 2007 Workbook (*.xlsx)
Excel 2007 workbook with macros enabled (*.xlsm)
Excel 2007 Template (*.xltx)
Excel 2007 templates with macros enabled (*.xltm)
Excel 2007 add-ons (*.xlam)
PowerPoint offers the following new formats:
PowerPoint 2007 Presentation (*.pptx)
PowerPoint 2007 presentation with macros enabled (*.pptm)
PowerPoint 2007 Template (*.potx)
PowerPoint 2007 template with macros enabled (*.potm)
PowerPoint 2007 Screening (*.ppsx)
PowerPoint 2007 projection with macros enabled (*.ppsm)