2007 Microsoft® Office System Inside Out

The New Microsoft Office XML File Formats

In the 2007 Office release, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint now use the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats, which means that their default file formats are based on XML. The XML file format provides a number of benefits: It provides better security for your files, reduces the chance of file corruption, reduces file size, and facilitates data sharing across data storage and retrieval systems.

Network administrators will like the small file size and reduced chance of corruption. Software developers and programmers will take advantage of the XML file format to integrate 2007 Office release applications with other business applications, even applications that aren’t published by Microsoft. Any application that supports ...