Jeff,
yes, it's a bug not a feature. Problem is who will ever really clean up the
mess of duplicate files on the network storage with hundreds or thousands ?
What's your suggestion?
It's also documented what to do to get the feature you need:
Simply click on "Save as" instead of "Save" after clicking on "Convert" - so
there will be .docx and .doc files. But for Clicking on "Save" it's
documented to delete the old .doc.
And if the cause of the bug is i.e. some file-locking problem of Word 2007
on network storage it might cause other problems! I think I already
experienced another issue related to this. It can make work harder for
developers of .dotm-Word-Addins.
Stefan
"Jeff Mathewson" wrote:
Stefan,
I don't see this as a bug. But when doing a fast check, I see that it is
one..but a very good bug. In that we are doing massive conversions and need
to keep the DOC files, so as you can guess, converting and keeping the DOC
files is good unlike Excel which does delete the files - which doesn't seem
to have as many conversion problems as Word 2007 does.
The big question is, is this really a bug, or something MS removed. I've
been finding converting from other versions of Word isn't going all that
well and if we lost the DOC files it would be a mess..MS may have seen this
as well and removed the auto delete for Word???? At the end, I hope that
they DO NOT fix this bug.
Jeff.
"StefanKZVB" wrote in message
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Hi Jeff,
the old .doc files remain on the network storage after conversion by the
user to .docx-format.
Please have a look here for the steps to reproduce the problem:
Word 2007: Convert Doc to Docx problem on network locations
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...=en-us&m=1&p=1
Can you reproduce the problem in your environment?
Stefan
"Jeff Mathewson" wrote:
What issue are you having with the network and Word 2007? Your posts
didn't
really state the problem..and I would be interested to know if it's
something like what we may be having with Word 2007.