Converting Office 2007 Files

If you are like me, you haven't had time to upgrade your Microsoft Office to the 2007 version. But that hasn't stopped people from emailing you 2007 files with extensions like docx and xlsx. What to do?

I Googled on a colleague's recommendation and found this: Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats - just download and install it and you can open whatever you need.Double-click on the files with the new extension to open them. They will not open from within the various applications. The files will then be converted.