Microsoft Office 12 to support PDF files
Microsoft Corp. said on Monday that the next version of its Office program will be able to save documents in the PDF format, a popular method of sharing documents between different computers and software programs. The silly part is that a PDF viewer will still be required. The PDF support will be built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote, Visio and InfoPath.
“We don’t want cost to be a barrier for any of our products,” Sinofsky told Reuters, noting that many other word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs include the ability to save files as PDFs. “We want to be a competitor.” Sinofsky said. Microsoft is gearing up to release the next version of Office, code-named “Office 12” in the second half of 2006, within the same time frame for a major upgrade of its flagship Windows program.
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