Mac OS X: Open Office 2007 Documents

Microsoft has recently released Office 2007 on the PC. With this new version of Office comes a new file format, and thus causes documents created with Office 2007 to be useless for Mac OS X, and Office:mac 2004 users.

Thanks to the great people at the Microsoft MacBU there is a way to convert these documents for use with Office:mac 2004, and Office:mac X. The Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2 (Beta) is now available for download.

While still in beta, and not guaranteed to work with all Office 2007 scenarios, at least we have a way that these files are no longer useless to us.