Microsoft Office versions and file formats
| This version of Office for Macintosh ... | ... uses the same format as this version for Windows ... | ... and works with these Windows versions, too. |
| Office 4.2.1 (Word 6, Excel 5, PowerPoint 4) | Office 95 | |
| Office 98 | Office 97 | Office 2000, Office XP |
| Office 2001 | Office 2000 | Office 97, Office XP |
| Office v.X | Office XP | Office 97, Office 2000 |
| Office 2004 | Office 2003 | Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP |
Office files that you transfer to Windows computers should have the appropriate file extensions added:
- Word files use ".doc"
- Word templates use ".dot"
- Text files use ".txt"
- Rich Text Format (RTF) files use ".rtf"
- Excel worksheet files use ".xls"
- Tab-delimited text data files use ".txt"
- Comma-delimited text data files use ".csv"
- PowerPoint files use ".ppt"
As of this writing, there are no current Macintosh versions of Microsoft Project, Microsoft FoxPro, Microsoft Access, or Microsoft's Visio products. There are some equivalent programs from other vendors with similar functions -- and, in some cases, that work on the same data formats -- on the Macintosh platform, however.
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Question: Are Microsoft Office files on a Macintosh compatible with Microsoft Office for Windows?
FAQ item: true
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