How to Create XML Data From Excel 2003. XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a data-management system based on flat files.

To be able to import your data into Excel, you must export the PDF as an XML file using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. Excel can open XML files and create fully functional spreadsheets out of them.

The converter provides read-only access to Office Open XML documents created with Office 2007. For the time being, it's Word-only and can convert those files to Rich Text Files (.rtf).

The next version of Office will fully support two new file formats, Strict Open XML and Open Document Format 1.2, Microsoft has announced. In a blog post on Monday, Office standards chief Jim ...