Native Excel 2007 Viewer Now Available

Posted on January 16, 2008

Microsoft released a new version of the Excel Viewer program on 14 January 2008. This version natively (without conversion) supports the viewing and printing of Excel 2007 files as well as all previous Excel files back to Excel 97. Here is the description from the site:

With Excel Viewer, you can open, view, and print Excel workbooks, even if you don’t have Excel installed. You can also copy data from Excel Viewer to another program. However, you cannot edit data, save a workbook, or create a new workbook. This download is a replacement for Excel Viewer 97 and all previous Excel Viewer versions.

While I’m here, let me remind you that there is also a Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack available that allows one to open and edit Office 2007 files from Office 2003 programs. Interestingly, Andrew Z. over at OpenOffice Ninja says that this works great for other office suites as well.

Both of these are free downloads from Microsoft.

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