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Answer Line: Old vs. new Microsoft Office file formats |
December 26, 2012
Ankush khandelwal asked about compatibility issues between files created in different versions of Microsoft Office--specifically the big changes in file format that came with Office 2007.
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With Office 2007, Microsoft introduced entirely new file formats for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Designated by an x at the end of the file extension (.docx instead of .doc, and so on), these were not backward compatible.
Initially, I wasn't happy with this change. I'm generally conservative about popular and established file formats--especially those supported by a great many software venders--and don't want them to be changed. And almost everyone in the office software business has been supporting .doc and .xls for years.
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