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How-to articles - Conversion

• How to open Office 2008 for Mac documents in an earlier version of Office for Mac
  Describes how to obtain and install the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. You must have this converter to open Office 2008 for Mac documents in an earlier version of Office for Mac.
• How to recover text from any Word for Mac or Excel for Mac file
  This article explains what the "Recover Text from Any File" converter is and how to use it to recover damaged documents.
• Information about how to work with Open XML Format files in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
  Explains how to work with Open XML Format files in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. Also lists known issues with working with Open XML Format files.
• How to troubleshoot damaged documents in Word for Mac
  This article provides troubleshooting procedures that you can use to identify damaged files in Microsoft Word for Mac and, in some cases, recover such files. Damaged document files can cause any program to exhibit unusual behavior. Such behavior occurs...