Filed under: Business, Windows, Macintosh, Office, Productivity, Web services, Freeware

Thanks Microsoft. No seriously, thanks. As far as I have the ability to tell, the new .docx default document format in MS Word 2007 and 2008 (for Mac) does nothing to make my life easier, but has certainly made it more of a pain. Even though my office predominantly uses Office 2003, our users are starting to receive documents saved in the newer .docx format, and are unable to open or edit them. Since I happen to be running Office 2007 and 2008 on my machine (it’s a Mac with VMWare Fusion for running Windows), I get to play the role of “mister file converter”.

Well, no longer.

Thanks to our pals over at TUAW, I have the ability to now redirect my office mates to Zamzar’s free on the internet file converter. We’ve written about Zamzar before, but this is the first I had heard that it supports Office file formats.

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