We had written about the repercussion of saving an Excel file in MS Office Beta 2 and the non-convertibility of the file making it totally unusable. This problem could be solved if you had saved it as ’97-2003 Document’. But as one of our reader points out, the newer file format is still incurable.

And if you’re facing the same problem then read on, here’s the probable solution. I cannot guarantee the success because I haven’t tried it yet. Anyways here it is.

Instead of opening Google Docs (which we did in the earlier case), head towards Microsoft’s own service known as Office Live Workspace. Now the remaining steps are the same.

Add the file to the workspace (For instance, ABC.XLSX)
The file will be displayed on the screen and now click on ‘Save as’ and download it.
As I told you before I can’t verify this so if anyone happens to try this, do let me know in the comments below.

Zuneboard member, lpxxfaintxx has written a nifty patch which after applying, Zune can play various types of audio and video formats. Just download the zip file, extract and run the patch. Voila! Your Zune will now play AVI, ASF, MPG, AAC, WAV files and many more.

Mod page

[Via LifeHacker]

Update: Part 2 of the Article.

Its been a few months after the final version of Office 2007 hit the retail stores. And to be honest, I was happy and eagerly waiting for the final version to come out and lay my hands on it. I was also a beta tester for Office 2007 (I assume many were) and its new interface and compressed saved files than earlier versions of Office were its major plus points.

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