Here’s a quick summary of upcoming changes in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 with regards to document formats:
1. With Office 2007 SP2, you will be able save documents to Adobe PDF format without requiring external plug-ins.
Microsoft Office 2007 will still not be able to read content from your PDF files so Adobe Reader is safe.
2. Like PDF, Office 2007 will also let you save documents in ODF format which is used by OpenOffice and is supported by almost every web office suite.
3. Unlike PDF, you will be able to open OpenOffice documents in Office 2007 for reading and editing.
4. Office 2007 customers will get an open to set OpenOffice as the default document format. That means when you hit Ctrl+S inside Microsoft Word, the first choice will be .odt.
5. The expected release date for Microsoft Office Service Pack 2 is 1H 2009. Read technical analysis of SP2 by Matusow and Doug Mahugh.
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Reader Comments
The google doc have the same functionality, we can import document to PDF then why should I care about Microsoft Office 2007.
Written by sanils on 05.22.08
Google document have this facility then why should I care about Microsoft Office :-)
Written by sanils on 05.22.08
Hah, finally a little bit of compatibility. Now I wont have to save all of my OOo documents as .doc.
The funny thing is, OpenOffice has been exporting to PDF since way back at v1.0. Probably before that.
Written by Zoasterboy on 05.22.08
Business users use Office 2007, so they don’t care about Google docs.
Written by Terry on 05.22.08