Here’s a quick summary of upcoming changes in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 with regards to document formats:
- 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.
- 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.
- Unlike PDF, you will be able to open OpenOffice documents in Office 2007 for reading and editing.
- 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.
- The expected release date for Microsoft Office Service Pack 2 is 1H 2009.
For details, check the press release or tech analysis by Matusow and Doug Mahugh.
Source : Digital Inspiration