2020-3-21  Microsoft Office 2007 (PC) and 2008 (Mac) introduced the new file formats docx, xlsx, and pptx. If you have the older version of Office, 2003 or 2004, you can install a file format converter that will let Office read the new file formats. The instructions below will guide you through the steps. We currently support the following Microsoft Word converter: PDF to DOCX, ODT to DOCX, DOCM to DOCX, RTF to DOCX, WPD to DOCX, TXT to DOCX and many more. You can even convert images or ebooks to a DOCX document. I have Mac, OS 10.4 (fully updated) and MS Office 2004 (also fully updated through the latest 11.6 (+) update) I need to open a Word file with the suffix.docx I was instructed to download the XML. If you are using Microsoft Office Word 2007 or Word 2010, you can open.docx or.docm files that were created in Word 2016 and 2013. However, a few newer features may not be supported in older versions or they may not be editable. For example, equations in later files are converted to images in earlier versions of Word, which can’t be edited.

1. Microsoft Office 2004 Mac Docx Converter Windows 7

Office 2004 for Mac is a version of Microsoft Office developed for Mac OS X. It is equivalent to Office 2003 for Windows. The software was originally written for PowerPC Macs, so Macs with Intel CPUs must run the program under Mac OS X's Rosetta emulation layer. For this reason, it is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 and newer.

Office 2004 was replaced by its successor, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, which was developed as a universal binary to run natively on Intel Macs. However, Office 2008 did not include support for Visual Basic for Applications, which made Microsoft extend the support period of Office 2004 from October 13, 2009 to January 10, 2012.^[3] Microsoft ultimately shipped support for Visual Basic in Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, which also dropped PowerPC support altogether. Support for Office 2004 ended January 10, 2012.^[2]

Editions[edit]

Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 is available in three editions: Standard, Professional, and Student and Teacher. All three editions include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage. The Professional Edition adds Virtual PC. The Student and Teacher Edition cannot be upgraded, which means when a later version of Office is released, people who purchased the Student and Teacher edition must buy a new package.

Features[edit]

Word 2004[edit]

Microsoft Word is a word processor which possesses a dominant market share in the word processor market. Its proprietary DOC format is considered a de facto standard, although its successive Windows version (Word 2007) uses a new XML-based format called .DOCX, but has the capability of saving and opening the old .DOC format.

The new Office Open XML format was built into the next version of Office for Mac (Office 2008). However, it is also supported on Office 2004 with the help of a free conversion tool available from Microsoft.^[4]

Excel 2004[edit]

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program. Like Microsoft Word, it possesses a dominant market share. It was originally a competitor to the dominant Lotus 1-2-3, but it eventually outsold it and became the de facto standard for spreadsheet programs.

Entourage 2004[edit]

Microsoft Entourage is an email application. Its personal information management features include a calendar, address book, task list, note list, and project manager. With Entourage 2004, Microsoft began offering a Project Center, which allows the user to create and organize projects. Information may come from within Entourage or outside the program.

PowerPoint 2004[edit]

Microsoft PowerPoint is a popular presentation program used to create slideshows composed of text, graphics, movies and other objects, which can be displayed on-screen and navigated through by the presenter or printed out on transparencies or slides. It too possesses a dominant market share. Movies, videos, sounds and music, as well as wordart and autoshapes can be added to slideshows.

Virtual PC[edit]

Included with Office 2004 for Mac Professional Edition, Microsoft Virtual PC is a hypervisor which emulates Microsoft Windowsoperating systems on Mac OS X which are PowerPC-based. Virtual PC does not work on Intel-based Macs and in August 2006, Microsoft announced it would not be ported to Intel-based Macintoshes, effectively discontinuing the product as PowerPC-based Macintoshes are no longer manufactured.

Criticism[edit]

Images inserted into any Office 2004 application by using either cut and paste or drag and drop result in a file that does not display the inserted graphic when viewed on a Windows machine. Instead, the Windows user is told 'QuickTime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture'. Peter Clark of Geek Boy's Blog presented one solution in December 2004.^[5] However, this issue persists in Office 2008.

There is no support for editing right to left and bidirectional languages (such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, etc.) in Office 2004. This issue has not been fixed in Office 2008 or 2011 either.^[6][7]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Download Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.6.6 Update'. Download Center. Microsoft. December 13, 2011. Archived from the original on July 5, 2012.
2. ^ ^ab'Microsoft Support Lifecycle'. Support. Microsoft. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
3. ^Tedesco, Mike (October 12, 2009). 'Office 2004 Mainstream Support Has Been Extended'. Mactopia. Microsoft. Archived from the original on October 17, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
4. ^'MS11-072: Description of the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.1: September 13, 2011'. Support. Microsoft. September 13, 2011.
5. ^Clark, Peter (December 6, 2004). 'QuickTime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture'. Geek Boy's Blog. Archived from the original on December 6, 2004. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
6. ^Heard, Chris (September 27, 2007). 'It's official: no RTL support in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac'. Higgaion. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
7. ^Morgenstern, David (August 8, 2010). 'Microsoft boosts languages, proofing tools in Office 2011 for Mac, Unicode right-to-left support missing'. ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 27, 2013.

Weighing in at a hefty 25Mb and still in super-beta-preview “we aren’t responsible if it throws your computer out the window into oncoming traffic” mode, Microsoft has announced a converter for their Office 2007 OOXML file format for us Mac Users. Yes, this is good news – as opposed to no news.

This however doesn’t delay the fears of Macintosh Office 2008 not being compatible with Windows Office 2007 (or any version for that matter) Macros – which Microsoft has already said it will not support in future Mac Versions. So the question still remains, what is the point in upgrading to Office 2008? Oh yeah. Office 2004 runs like a dog on my Intel Macs and Powerpoint 2004 presentations take five seconds to transition. Hurry up Sun with that Star Office Package!

In other Microsoft-Macintosh news, I noticed a new Favicon in the Microsoft URL today (Pictured at the left). It looks familiar but doesn’t exist anywhere else on the site – is this the new look of Microsoft for Mac? Maybe the Office 2008 Beta?

The Microsoft Statement included the below:

Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.1b (Beta)

With the Office Open XML Converter, that you can convert Office Open XML files to a format that is compatible with Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Office v. X for Mac. You can choose to convert and open one file, or convert a large number of files.

This version of the Office Open XML Converter can convert the following Office Open XML file formats:

* Word Document (*.docx) * Word Macro-Enabled Document (*.docm)

These files are converted to Rich Text Format (RTF), which can be opened in Microsoft Word 2004 and Microsoft Word X.

The converter is a Beta release, and might be unable to convert all the data in Office Open XML files. After you convert a file, you should review the file carefully to make sure that it contains all of the information that you expect.

The following issues are known to exist in this Beta release:

* Macros and Visual Basic content are not included in the converted file. * Charts and SmartArt graphics are converted to pictures.

The following issues might occur in this Beta release:

* Graphics and other objects in the document might appear with a different size. * Color fills and shading in tables might not be preserved. * Conversion might not succeed if the document contains a bibliography or citations. * Conversion might not succeed if the document contains WordArt. * Document layout and formatting might not be preserved. * Some Unicode characters might not be preserved. * Conversion might not succeed if the document contains very large pictures. * Conversion might not succeed if you use an SMB network volume as the preferred destination for converted files. * Picture bullets might not be preserved. * Fonts might be substituted.

This Beta release expires on December 31, 2007.

System requirements

Important You must use Office 2004 11.3.4 or later, or Office v. X 10.1.9 or later to open converted documents. To verify that you have installed the Office 2004 11.3.4 update, select the Microsoft Component Plugin file in the Microsoft Office 2004/Office folder on your hard disk, and then on the File menu, click Get Info. To verify that you have installed the Office v. X 10.1.9 update, select the Microsoft Component Plugin file in the Microsoft Office X/Office folder on your hard disk, and then on the File menu, click Get Info.

Additionally, your computer must meet the following minimum requirements:

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4.8 (Tiger) or a later version of Mac OS

Note To verify that your computer meets these minimum requirements, on the Apple menu, click About This Mac.

Installation instructions

To install this update

1. Print this page if you want to use it as a reference when you are offline. 2. Quit any applications that are running, including all Office applications, Microsoft Messenger, and Office Notifications, because they might interfere with installation. 3. Make sure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements listed previously. 4. In the preceding table, click the English (.dmg) link. 5. Follow the instructions on the screen to save the file to your hard disk.

If you are using Safari, the downloaded file is saved to the desktop unless you specified a different location in the Preferences dialog box of Safari. To check your preferences, on the Safari menu, click Preferences, and then click General.

If you are using Internet Explorer, the Download Manager saves the file to the desktop unless you specified a different folder in the Preferences dialog box of Internet Explorer. To check your preferences, on the Explorer menu, click Preferences, and then click Download Options in the left pane.

6. Double-click the file you downloaded in step 5 to place the Office Open XML Converter volume on your desktop, and then double-click the Office Open XML Converter volume to open it. This step might have been performed for you. 7. In the Office Open XML Converter volume window, double-click the Install Open XML Converter application to start the update process, and then follow the instructions on the screen. 8. If the installation finishes successfully, you can remove the update installer from your hard disk. To remove the update installer, first drag the Office Open XML Converter volume to the Trash, and then drag the file you downloaded to the Trash.

To remove this update

1. If the converter is running, quit the application. 2. On your hard disk, locate the converter application. 3. Drag the converter application to the Trash, and then empty the Trash. 4. To remove your existing converter application preferences, in /Users/username/Library/Preferences/Microsoft, delete the com.microsoft.OfficeConverter.plist file. 5. To remove all converter files from your computer, in /Library/Application Support/Microsoft, delete the Office Converter Support folder.

Additional information

Technical support is not available for this beta release, and we cannot accept product feedback at this time. For information about using the converter after you install it, on the Help menu, click Converter Help. For further information, read to the Software License Agreement that is displayed during installation.

Note Converter application updates will be available from Microsoft AutoUpdate, an application that can automatically keep your Microsoft software up to date. To use AutoUpdate, open the converter application, and then on the Help menu, click Check for Updates. Last Updated: May 07, 2007

Microsoft Office 2004 Mac Docx Converter Windows 7

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