Open Microsoft Office 2007 files Using Mac Software

[Mary]

I am going to Europe (I'm Canadian) and will be working in a Computer Lab
with IMAC computers. I will be taking data files with me created with
Microsoft. Is there a conversion program that will allow me to format my
files to readily open in Mac Programs. I have heard alot of times Mac Users
can't open my files when I send them to them and want to avoid not having
access to this important data which form part of my work.

 

[William Smith]

I am going to Europe (I'm Canadian) and will be working in a Computer Lab
with IMAC computers. I will be taking data files with me created with
Microsoft. Is there a conversion program that will allow me to format my
files to readily open in Mac Programs. I have heard alot of times Mac Users
can't open my files when I send them to them and want to avoid not having
access to this important data which form part of my work.

Hi Mary!

Office documents (Excel, PowerPoint and Word) can be opened by
compatible versions of Office on the other platform. No conversion is
necessary.

Compatible versions are:

Office 2000 (WIN) - Office 2001 (Mac)
Office 2003 (WIN) - Office 2004 (Mac)
Office 2007 (WIN) - Office 2008 (Mac)

The newer versions of Office will always open documents created by older
versions.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

 

[Bates]

I am going to Europe (I'm Canadian) and will be working in a Computer Lab
with IMAC computers. I will be taking data files with me created with
Microsoft. Is there a conversion program that will allow me to format my
files to readily open in Mac Programs. I have heard alot of times Mac Users
can't open my files when I send them to them and want to avoid not having
access to this important data which form part of my work.

Hi Mary,

If you have Office 2007 - the default file format is .docx/.xlsx/.pptx
(an .xml file format for the new version of Office). Only Office 2007
and the new Office 2008 for Mac can read this format. If you are not
sure that the computers you will be using in Europe will have the
newest version of Mac Office (I would not assume they do), then you
will need to choose to save the file as Office 97-2003 format (which
will have the old .doc/.xls/.ppt extensions). That should work on
pretty much any version of Office without issue.

If you are really concerned and want a back up plan you can also save
all your Word documents as RTF's but you really should not need to.

Neil

 

[Mickey Stevens]

If you have Mac OS X 10.5, you can open the .docx (new Word document format)
file in TextEdit. The conversion may not be perfect, although documents
appear to be readable.

 

[nicolas salazar]

Hi

Did you found an answer to your question? I´m buying an iMAC computer and wish to transfer all my database (mail, directory, tasks etc..) from my Windows Office 2007 computer to the iMAC office 2008 for Mac.

Can you help on how to proceed?

Thanks

Nicolas

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Nicolas,

WinOffice 2007 and MacOffice 2008 use the same new file format for
Excel/PPT/Word files, so those should move over (although there are many
features in Word/XL/PPT 2007 that are not supported in Mac 2008, depends
on how complex your files are). Note also that MacOffice does *not*
include Access, Publisher, Visio, etc.

However, you are interested in mail, directory, tasks. Does that mean
you will be moving from Outlook? That's a little more complicated.
Entourage is the Outlook alternative on the Mac, but the two programs
are *not* equivalent. You should start with the information here:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/cross_platform/win_mac.html

Further questions should be searched/asked in the Entourage newsgroup.
http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Entourage/

It is better to start a NEW thread so that you get information specific
to your issue, than to add on to an existing thread.

Daiya