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All my Word documents are saving as .doc
Those are the default file extensions for those files. I assume that
previously you were not displaying file extensions. This is a Windows setting (Tools | Folder Options | View: Hide file extensions for known file types in Windows Explorer). It is strongly recommended, however, that you display file extensions, as this makes it much less likely that you will be tricked by a malicious attachment. For example, I just got an email purporting to be a notice of an e-postcard from "a family member." The link in the email, which displayed an address at www.postcards.com (or something like that), when moused over, displayed a filename ending in gif.exe. If I hadn't had file extensions displayed, I might have been fooled by the "GIF." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "paulc" wrote in message ... My computer recently crashed but I fortunately had backed up all my files and documents shortly before the event. When I reloaded the files, all of the Word documents had their titles ending in .doc unlike their previous titles. Also I noticed my saved Excel files end in .xls and assume that my Powerpoint documents are ending in .ppt. I use Office Professional 2002 and don't remember if I reloaded it or the documents first after the crash. Maybe that had something to do with it. The extra endings on the document titles are annoying--not a big deal but wanted to know what happened in the transition that caused the change. |
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