{"id":15512,"date":"2016-08-13T14:29:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15512"},"modified":"2016-08-13T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:29:38","slug":"modern-versions-of-word-cant-open-old-file-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/modern-versions-of-word-cant-open-old-file-formats\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Versions of Word Can&rsquo;t Open Old File Formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/johngordon\/post\/70156474\">John Gordon<\/a> reminds that older documents don&rsquo;t open in Microsoft Word 2008 and later. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/953266\">Microsoft<\/a> recommends using Microsoft Word 2004 or TextEdit. If you still have the ability to run Office 2004, it&rsquo;s probably a good idea to migrate any remaining <tt>.doc<\/tt> and <tt>.xls<\/tt> files to <tt>.docx<\/tt> and <tt>.xlsx<\/tt> soon. Microsoft supports file formats for longer than Apple, but not forever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/clarkgoble\/post\/70157870\">Clark<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/clarkgoble\/post\/70157886\">Goble<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/clarkgoble\/post\/70157870\"><p>Yup there&rsquo;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=21888\">Office Migration Manager<\/a> but it&rsquo;s Windows only.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/clarkgoble\/post\/70157886\"><p>There was a program called MacLinkPlus that did pretty good conversions of all formats from the 80&rsquo;s and 90&rsquo;s. Unfortunately its PPC. I&rsquo;m pretty sure I have a copy on my old G5. (Which hasn&rsquo;t been booted in years)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/clarkgoble\/post\/70157923\"><p>Reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/download\/libreoffice-fresh\/\">LibreOffice<\/a> can do the conversion as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gordon reminds that older documents don&rsquo;t open in Microsoft Word 2008 and later. Microsoft recommends using Microsoft Word 2004 or TextEdit. If you still have the ability to run Office 2004, it&rsquo;s probably a good idea to migrate any remaining .doc and .xls files to .docx and .xlsx soon. Microsoft supports file formats for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,30,32,445,1050],"class_list":["post-15512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-microsoftword","tag-textedit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15513,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512\/revisions\/15513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}