Put Office 2004 to work for you, whether you use your Mac for home, school or busines. Standard Edition: Enhanced productivity tools for home and Soft-Go is not responsible for the content of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac publisher's description. We encourage you to determine whether this. Microsoft has released Systems and Suites for Windows. However, the new Office 2007 is using new Office Open XML Formats as the default format for popular business productivity suites. Thus, instead of usual 3-character extension, Office 2007 now uses 4-character extension to identify and differentiate the Office 2007 files, such as Word.docx, Excel.xclx and Powerpoint.pptx. The new XML format for the Office documents is not backward compatible, which means the new files or documents created with Office 2007 will not be able to open with previous version of Office editor or viewer directly. To solve the backward compatibility issues of new Office 2007 file formats with older version of Office programs (2003, XP and 2000) in Windows, Microsoft has released that allows users of Microsoft Office 2003, XP and 2000 to open, edit and save Office 2007 files. However, for Macintosh users who use Office 2004 for Mac, there is no such luck yet, as the compatibility pack or file format converter for Mac OS X version of Office is not yet ready. What you will see when try to open an Office 2007 document on Mac Office 2004. So for the time being, Office for MacOS X users who wants to open, read, view, edit, modify and save Office 2007 files, documents, workbooks, presentations, etc or share Office files across Windows and Mac platforms will have the following alternatives: • Wait for the release of free and downloadable file format converters and compatibility pack to be released by with beta release scheduled on Spring 2007 (end March or early April), and final release available six to eight weeks after next upgrade of Office for Mac (which mean 8 – 10 months from now). Note: has been released. • Upgrade to next version of Office for Mac (Office 2007 for Mac) which will be available 6 – 8 months after general availability of Windows Office 2007), and has native support of Office Open XML file format. • When creating and saving documents or files in Office 2007, choose “Save As”, and save the file as a “Word/Excel/PowerPoint 97-2003 Document” (.doc,.xls,.ppt) format. This method of Office trick will save the documents with backward compatibility ability. • Download then open source productivity suite which due to support the proprietary Open XML document format in Microsoft Office 2007 by the end of January. Microsoft Office hasn’t been around forever, or even quite as long as the Macintosh, but it has been around for a long, long time. 1.0 was released for Mac in 1984 and soon became the Mac’s dominant word processing app. 1.0 was a Mac-first application and arrived in 1985. PowerPoint 1.0 came in 1987, three years ahead of the first Windows version. It only made sense for Microsoft to bundle these three popular programs, and thus Microsoft Office was born in 1989 – again on the Mac before it came to Windows. By the way, no version of Microsoft Office for Mac has ever included the database program, which remains a Windows exclusive, possibly as an incentive for Windows users not to switch to Macs. The Microsoft Office The first version of Office included Word 4.0, Excel 2.2, PowerPoint 2.01, and Mail 1.37. Literally: It included full box sets of each application! Office first shipped on floppy disks, and it later became the first major Mac software to be released on CD-ROM. Microsoft Office 1.5 for Mac Released in 1991, Office 1.5 included Excel 3.0, the first software written to take advantage of. ![]() Microsoft Office 3.0 for Mac Released in 1992, Office 3.0 had Word 4.0, Excel 4.0, and PowerPoint 3.0. Excel was the first program to support AppleScript. There was no Office 2.0 for Mac. Microsoft Office 4.2 for Mac Arriving in 1994 and now using version numbers that synchronize with the Windows version, Office 4.2 included Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0, and Mail 3.2. It was designed to be as much like the Windows versions of these apps as possible, which many Mac users hated, as these apps were thus very un-Maclike. This was the last version of Office to support 680×0 Macs.
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