To be able to import your data into Excel, you must export the PDF as an XML file using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. Excel can open XML files and create fully functional spreadsheets out of them.

Simply put, .xlsx is a file extension for the open XML spreadsheet used by Microsoft Excel from 2007 onwards. Why the change in format from earlier versions of Excel?

The converter provides read-only access to Office Open XML documents created with Office 2007. For the time being, it's Word-only and can convert those files to Rich Text Files (.rtf).

Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit released three updates for its Mac Office products. Office 2008, Office 2004 and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac are all available from the company ...

The next version of Office will fully support two new file formats, Strict Open XML and Open Document Format 1.2, Microsoft has announced. In a blog post on Monday, Office standards chief Jim ...