Create a PDF from an Office document using Google Docs
A few days ago, I was using a desktop at home to try to print a .docx document (from Word 2008). Unfortunately, the home machine had a much older version of Office, and it couldn't open the .docx format. As a workaround, I uploaded the .docx document into Google Docs, edited it a little bit, and then clicked Print. This converts the document into a PDF, so all you need to do is save that window to create a local PDF. (This also works if you create a document using Google Docs and click Print.) [robg adds: Another way to do this would be to send the .docx file through Microsoft's Open XML File Format Converter. After conversion, you could then open the document in older versions of Office.]
published on Wednesday, the 17. March 2010, macosxhints
Microsoft Delivers Goodies For Older Office Users, Too
Along with Office 2008 updates and announced Macintosh Business Unit hiring, Microsoft has also bestowed blessings upon older Office users (2004) with the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.0 Update and version 1.0 of their Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. The Office 2004 update adds enhanced compatibility for documents that are in Open XML [...]
published on Wednesday, the 25. June 2008, apple-blog
Office 2004 11.5 adds XML; Office 2008 12.1.1 ships
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled updates for Office 2004 and 2008, offering users some stability, security, performance, and compatibility fixes with the two business productivity suites. Office 2004 11.5.0 adds compatibility with documents from Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2007 for Windows by offering an update to the Open XML File Format Converter...
published on Tuesday, the 24. June 2008, macintosh-news-network
Briefly: DeskUNPDF review, global Mac apps
In brief: We have posted a review of DeskUNPDF, Lingoport is offering classes on writing globalized Mac apps, Apple came in 11th in Web traffic in April, and the Lasso Wiki source code has been released ... We have posted a review of DeskUNPDF for Mac from Docudesk is a very easy to use utility that converts Adobe PDF files into a modifiable form. ...
published on Tuesday, the 20. May 2008, macintosh-news-network
Review: deskUNPDF for Mac 2.0
DeskUNPDF for Mac from Docudesk is a very easy to use utility that converts Adobe PDF files into a modifiable form. You can edit, rearrange, add, or delete text, plus place tabular data into Excel spread sheets. You can also export the imbedded graphics. You can also take PDFs that contain spreadsheet and database data and extract that data as...
published on Wednesday, the 14. May 2008, macintosh-news-network
MS Open XML converter updates to 0.2.1
Microsoft has released a new beta of its Open XML File Format Converter for Mac OS X. The utility converts Open XML documents into a format readable by Office v. X or Office 2004 for Mac, and supports batch operations in addition to single-file use. Five different file types can be altered: these include standard and macro-enabled Word documents ...
published on Friday, the 21. December 2007, macintosh-news-network
PDF2Office Professional 4 to ship in Feb '08
Recosoft today unveiled PDF2Office Professional 4 for Mac OS X, a major upgrade to the PDF-to-Office format conversion tool that brings more than 300 new features and enhancements as well as compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. PDF2Office Professional converts PDF documents to the Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, RTF, and other file formats by recr...
published on Thursday, the 6. December 2007, macintosh-news-network