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You are here: Home / Tech / Google / Google Apps kills off export support for old Microsoft Office formats

Google Apps kills off export support for old Microsoft Office formats

September 28, 2012 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Google’s online office suite will drop support for older Microsoft Office formats like .doc and .xls on October 1, 2012.

Google Docs drops export of DOC XLS and more

Google announced that as of October 1st Google Apps users will not longer be able to export Google Docs format files to the classic Microsoft Office formats, .doc, .xls and.ppt. In their blog post “Scheduled Release track features update 9/25/12” they said

The built-in exporting feature from Google Docs to Microsoft Office will now allow users to download Google documents as modern Office formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx), as opposed to the older formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt) that were standard in Office 97-2003.

I sort of giggled when I read that they will be forcing people to use “modern” Office formats because, sadly, so many business users still send things in the old .doc format. Users will still be able to export to the Office Open XML formats, .docx, .xlsx and .pptx, as well as various other options (rich text, .csv, etc). If you’re using a version of Microsoft Office prior to Office 2003 you will not be able to use the new exported doc formats. However, Microsoft does offer a compatibility pack to help users of Office 2000 and 2002 work with the newer formats.

 

The ability to import Office files of any format to Google Docs is still supported and will remain unchanged.

 

 

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About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I run. I meditate. I dance. I blog at PaulSpoerry.com, tweet @PaulSpoerry, and I'm here on Google+.

I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

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