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.

Open XML was approved as a standard last December by ECMA International. The standards body then submitted the file format to the larger ISO standards organization in Geneva.

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 ...

With the introduction of Office 2007, Microsoft abandoned the age-old .doc format in favor of the newer .docx (also known as the Office Open XML format). If you’re still using Word 2003 or an ...

Ever since Microsoft announced its Office Open XML file format to be used with the new version of Office 2007 for Windows, Mac-using Office geeks have been living in a sort of quiet fear for the ...

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 ...

The Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.1b can convert .docx and .docm documents (the latter are Word macro-enabled documents) into RTF format, which can be opened in Word 2004 ...

Microsoft released updates for Office 2008 and Office 2004 improving stability and fixing issues caused by previous updates. The company also released its Open XML converter, allowing users to ...

The 2007 versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint all use the new open XML file format.