Hello Dave,
From your post, my understanding on this issue is: you wonder if there is a
tool that enables Office 2000/2002 to read Office 2007 file formats. If I'm
off base, please feel free to let me know.
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007
File Formats
(
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee
-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en) should fit your request. According to
"Overview":
By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000,
Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files
using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.
To confirm that the compatibility pack enables Office 2000 to read/write
DOCX/XLSX/PPTX, I made a test on a Windows XP system with Office 2000 (no
Service Pack), and the Compatibility pack. It works well to read the Office
2007 file formats.
Please let me know if you have any other concerns, or need anything else.
Sincerely,
Jialiang Ge (
[email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support
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