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Information on Budget Document Formats

Budget 2007 is available for download in a range of formats:

Microsoft Office - Word (.doc); Excel (.xls)

For information about Microsoft Word and Excel see the Microsoft Office website. If you do not have Microsoft Word or Excel, you can download a free viewer for Word here and for Excel here.

OpenDocument - Text (.odt); Spreadsheet (.ods)

OpenDocument or "OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications" is a standardized XML-based file format specification suitable for office applications. It is supported by OpenOffice.org, StarOffice and KOffice. For more information, see the OASIS website.

Portable Document (.pdf)

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe Systems. Adobe provides a free PDF reader here.

Office Open XML - Document (.docx); Spreadsheet (.xlsx)

Office Open XML is an office application format developed by Microsoft and submitted to Ecma for approval as a standard - more information about the Ecma Office Open XML File Formats Standard is available here. Open XML documents can be opened with the 2007 Microsoft Office System or with Microsoft Office 2003, if the compatibility update - available here - is installed.

ZIP files (.zip)

A ZIP file usually consists of one or more compressed files. This year's budget can be downloaded in all formats as one ZIP file or the all the documents within each format can be downloaded as a ZIP file. A number of ZIP file software tools are available including PKZIP, WinZip, and 7-Zip. Zip files also appear as compressed folders in Windows XP.