Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007

With the impending release of Office 2007 and its plethora of strange, new file formats, you might want to consider installing a compatibility pack from Microsoft that lets you open, edit, and save in these new formats.

For the most part, the new formats for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 are just elaborations of current ones plus one extra letter. They are the following:

Microsoft Office Word 2007
• Word 2007 document (*.docx)
• Word 2007 macro-enabled document (*.docm)

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• PowerPoint 2007 presentation (*.pptx)
• PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled presentation (*.pptm)
• PowerPoint 2007 template (*.potx)
• PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled template (*.potm)
• PowerPoint 2007 show (*.ppsx)
• PowerPoint 2007 macro-enabled show (*.ppsm)

Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Excel 2007 binary workbook (*.xlsb)
• Excel 2007 workbook (*.xlsx)
• Excel 2007 macro-enabled workbook (*.xlsm)
• Excel 2007 template (*.xltx)
• Excel 2007 macro-enabled template (*.xltm)
• Excel 2007 add-in (*.xlam)

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