Microsoft adding XML files to Office 12 XML-based file formats in the offing for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications are expected to free up data and improve security.

Microsoft Word's new Open-XML-based file format provides support for new content enhancements, helps minimize the chances of data corruption, can compress file content to produce smaller documents ...

The Microsoft MacBU has released a new version of the Office Open XML File Converter 0.2, a tool for converting Office Open XML files (as are generated by Office 2007 for Windows and the ...

If you want to have an option to choose the file format before opening a PDF, HTML, XML, or any other file in Word, here is how you can do that. It is possible to confirm file format conversion on ...

The Open XML Translator allows Microsoft Word documents based on Open XML to be translated into ODF and vice versa, Matusow said. Once downloaded, it can be used as a plug-in for Microsoft Office ...

An XML-based file format developed by Microsoft and standardized by ECMA. Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML is the default document format for saving applications.

Beginning with Office 2007, Microsoft unveiled a new file format, called Open XML, which uses the .docx extensionbut isn't compatible with older versions of Office without some assistance. Here ...