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Stuck with Office 2007? Oops!
Read this entire article from the Sun-Times about the new Office 2007!
Downloader BEWARE!! http://www.suntimes.com/output/workt...in-andy13.html Here's a snippet from that article: It's called "Bargaining," folks. Microsoft is so late late late with both Windows Vista and what was originally going to be called Microsoft Office 12 that at this stage, the only way to placate the huddled masses is to just let them use the software-in-progress -- now dubbed Office 2007 -- for free. Go on and download it from www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/ It's fully functional. One caveat: the beta is free and fully functional, but it stops working in February. And because Office 2007 uses a new file format, you might wind up stuck with 2007 files that your paid-for copy of Office 2003 can't open. I mean, hey, Microsoft might be slow, but they're not stupid. |
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Stuck with Office 2007? Oops!
The fact that there is a new format is not a secret. It's be fully
documented. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "GreyGoose" wrote in message ... Read this entire article from the Sun-Times about the new Office 2007! Downloader BEWARE!! http://www.suntimes.com/output/workt...in-andy13.html Here's a snippet from that article: It's called "Bargaining," folks. Microsoft is so late late late with both Windows Vista and what was originally going to be called Microsoft Office 12 that at this stage, the only way to placate the huddled masses is to just let them use the software-in-progress -- now dubbed Office 2007 -- for free. Go on and download it from www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/ It's fully functional. One caveat: the beta is free and fully functional, but it stops working in February. And because Office 2007 uses a new file format, you might wind up stuck with 2007 files that your paid-for copy of Office 2003 can't open. I mean, hey, Microsoft might be slow, but they're not stupid. |
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Stuck with Office 2007? Oops!
One caveat: the beta is free and fully functional, but it stops
working in February. And because Office 2007 uses a new file format, you might wind up stuck with 2007 files that your paid-for copy of Office 2003 can't open. Wrong. This applies only to OneNote 2007 as there is no way to open OneNote 2007 files in OneNote 2003. For the programs with the new file formats (mainly Excel, PPT, Word), Microsoft is providing converters that can be installed in Office XP and 2003 for free (converters are currently in beta test as well). So you can open your 2007 documents in an older Office version past the expiration of the beta. Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net |
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