Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 will add support for Open Document Format

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Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 will add support for Open Document Format

by Brad Linder May 21st 2008

Microsoft has announced plans to add support for a several new document formats to Office 2007. The company plans to release Office 2007 SP2 during the first half of 2009, and it will add support for XPS, PDF 1.5, and ODF 1.1 files, among others.

Users will be able to create, open, and edit ODF documents, and save documents as XPS, PDF, or ODF files. The Open Document Format, or ODF is an open source challenger to Microsoft's Office formats. A few years ago the company released an add-on for Microsoft Word that would allow users to open ODF documents. But with the launch of Office 2007 SP2, support for ODF and PDF files will be built right into the applications. No add-ons necessary.

Or you could just use OpenOffice.org today. No waiting until 2009 necessary.

[via OStatic and CNet]

Tags: formats, odf, office, office-2007, office-2007-sp2, pdf

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

richard.gailey said 9:22PM on 5-21-2008

Still no support for.dbf file types though? I was really hoping they would have addressed this by now.

poopy_pants said 8:16AM on 5-22-2008

excel supports dbf

jfjb said 8:17AM on 5-22-2008

OpenOffice recognizes also the DBF file (grin)
Right now, not in 2009 (grin)
It only costs the download and install time (grin)

Dave said 8:24AM on 5-22-2008

And when you send someone one of these files, they'll ask "WTF is this?" I told you to send me a word file.

richard.gailey said 10:02AM on 5-22-2008

You can import .dbf file types into Office 2007, however you can't export as a .dbf. That is what I find annoying in SP2 for Office 2007, as I would have liked the ability to export as .dbf as with all prior versions of Office.

Dave said 11:11AM on 5-22-2008

To do .dbf exports in Office, you have to do them from Access. The feature was removed in Excel due to lack of use. (or to spur sales of Access)

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