Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats

Since the arrival of the 2007 edition of Microsoft Office users began to experience compatibility issues with the freshly introduced document formats.

Many users dealt with the problem of opening or editing a DOCX file in Word 2003; let alone saving their work into one of the new file formats.

As the controversies kept piling up, the solution came with the release of Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats. This software was not considered to be a fix or a patch, because it was never included in the Microsoft Automatic Updates.

Thus, if you ever want to wipe out the issues of opening, editing or saving documents, presentations and workbooks that have been created in newer versions of Microsoft Office, use this tool. Be aware, though, that it will only work with the 2000, XP and 2003 edition of the suite.

The installation will not take more than a minute or so on any given computer capable of running the required software, and it only displays an "OK" button at the end of it or an error if it fails.

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats also supports the Microsoft Office Word / Excel / PowerPoint Viewer 2003 software. It does not require users to restart their computers and you can start working with DOCX, PPTX or XLSX files right away. This software is not great on itself. Without the problems occurred within the process and all the nerves reported MIA, it wouldn't have been developed. It really gets the essence out of the saying: “Better late than never.”