Let’s get started. 1] Open XML file in MS Excel It may sound strange, but MS Excel can handle XML data. It allows you to open XML documents and view or edit their content.

Click on the "Data" menu in Excel and choose "XML," then "XML Source" to open the "XML Source" task pane. Click on the "XML Maps" button, then click "Add" and choose the XML map file you created ...

By default, you can't open a PDF file in Excel 2010, the spreadsheet software from Microsoft. To be able to import your data into Excel, you must export the PDF as an XML file using Adobe Acrobat ...

Late last week, the Microsoft MacBU issued an update to the Office Open XML Converter 0.1.1, which converts Office Open XML files (used by Office 2007 for Windows and the forthcoming Office 2008 ...

Microsoft has posted a message to its Mactopia site making two announcements: the Open XML File Format Converter Update to Office 2004 for Mac will be delayed until June (the second major delay ...

Comments backing the file format, coming mostly from groups and companies outside the United States, have been posted on a new Microsoft-sponsored Web site called Open XML Community.

Microsoft has announced that Office 2013 will support two new document formats: Strict Open XML and Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2, in addition to Word opening and editing PDF files.

X users can both open Word and PowerPoint Open XML files and save in those formats using beta converters MBU has issued. No such converter has been released that handles Excel 2007’s Open XML ...

Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has released a minor update to Office 2008 for Mac that fixes a bug when opening Open XML files. The update, version 12.2.1, has just been posted to the Office for ...

Microsoft is trumpeting support for its Office Open XML document file format as an international standard from more than 300 companies and organizations on a new "community" Web site set up by the ...