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A few weeks back, I wrote about how smart Office 2003 had been in detecting my need for an Office 2007 document converter<\/a> and opening it for me. If only I could say the same for Office 2004 on the Mac. I’m all too familiar with Microsoft product groups working independently but the MacBU<\/a> has excelled (excuse the pun) in its inability to ship a working document converter for the Open XML document formats more than seven months after the release of Office 2007 on Windows.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, Office 2008 for Mac (which uses the new file formats) is a closed beta so I can’t use that to convert\/open the files.<\/p>\n

Ironically, there are various reports of using an alternative office suite like OpenOffice or NeoOffice to open the files! Hmm… not such a smart business move for Microsoft then…<\/p>\n

My Digital Life has information on the various options for working with Open XML in Office 2004 for Mac<\/a>. Mac Mojo (the Mac Office team blog) has information about a beta converter for Word documents<\/a> (only).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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