How To Open MS Office 2007 / 2010 (Word / Excel / Power Point) files in MS Office 2003

Ever since MS office 2007 was launched, there was not much of a file format change resulting a default file format compatibility between all versions of Office (98 / 2000 / XP / 2003).

The default extension for saving a file in MS office (98 / 2k / XP / 2k3) are same,

• .doc for office word
• .xls for office excel
• .ppt for office power point

Since Office 2007 is launched a new file format has been introduced which takes and extra 'x' in the extension. As for example,

• .docx for office word (2007 / 2010)
• .xlsx for office excel (2007 / 2010)
• .pptx for office power point (2007 / 2010)

Open MS-Office 2007 files in Older Ms-Office Suits !!

Microsoft Office 2007 applications has a new file format. Word has extension .docx unlike .doc in previous versions. Other applications also has an extra x in their extension which can not be opened using older version Office suit.

Microsoft has released a new Office Compatibility Pack for older version users who now can open the Office 2007 files using older Office suits.

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Using this Pack you can open Microsoft Word, Excel PowerPoint 2007 files in Older Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint.