Click on the "Data" menu in Excel and choose "XML," then "XML Source" to open the "XML Source" task pane. Click on the "XML Maps" button, then click "Add" and choose the XML map file you created ...

Microsoft claims 4 million downloads of Open XML, but approval by government bodies still pending. Topics ... Jones wrote that the so-called Office compatibility pack for Word, Excel, ...

For an Excel for Windows workbook that does not open in Excel 2008 for Mac, save the workbook in the XLSB file format from Excel for Windows. You can then open and resave to XLSX, XLTX, XLSM, or ...

That's what Microsoft has managed to do with Open XML, the format of the new Office 2007 program. Geneva-based ECMA has approved Open XML as a international data standard, AP reports.