Microsoft Office uses a original file format, called Office Open XML, as the failure to pay file format. It is based on XML and also uses the ZIP folder bottle. According to Microsoft, credentials shaped in this format are up to 75% lesser than the similar documents saved with preceding Microsoft Office file formats, owing to information density
Word documents with no macro extensions are at the present saved using a .docx extension rather than the customary .doc extension. Files containing macros are saved with the extension .docm. You can put aside your 2007 Word credentials in the old format so that they will at a standstill be usable in preceding versions of Word. If not, you will contain to download a without charge converter from Microsoft for older versions of Word to be clever to open documents shaped in the new format.
Microsoft had at first announced that it will hold up sell abroad to Portable Document Format (PDF) in Office 2007. However, due to officially permitted objections from Adobe Systems, Office 2007 will not have PDF hold up out of the box, but quite as a break up free download. Office 2007 documents can also be exported as XPS documents, via one more free plug-in that is also a detach download.