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Microsoft updates Office Open XML converter

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A new beta of Microsoft's Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac adds PowerPoint support.

The version 0.2 release of the converter includes support for PowerPoint presentation, show and template files.

It also improves the conversion of Word documents, including support for XML content, inline graphics, hyperlinked graphics, WMF/EMF graphics, SmartArt graphics, Unicode characters, bibliography fields, citation fields, and complex tables.

A beta converter with support for Excel as well as PowerPoint was promised for this (southern) winter, and a final version is expected six to eight weeks after the release of Office 2008 for Mac.

Beta 0.2, which expires on December 31, 2007, can be downloaded here.