[Ann Scharpf]

Hi,

I am on a network with over 5,000 users. When they set us up, whoever
designed the system erroneously decided that we needed to use the default
file format that is backward compatible all the way to Office 95. This file
format causes HUGE file bloat (as much as 40x the normal file size!) I
believe I have finally gotten the attention of the right people; it will be
easy to fix the ghost image for future accounts but they are stymied as to
how to fix the 5,000 existing accounts in an automated way. Is there a
registry setting they can "reach out" and change to select regular Word 2003
as the default document type?
--
Ann Scharpf

[Pranav Vaidya[_2_]]

I think this is possible by making the registry chage. For more detailed
documentation that you may want to pass on to the developers and networking
team can be found at

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257592

Hope this helps!!
--
Pranav Vaidya
VBA Developer
PN, MH-India
If you think my answer is useful, please rate this post as ANSWER!!


"Ann Scharpf" wrote:

Hi,

I am on a network with over 5,000 users. When they set us up, whoever
designed the system erroneously decided that we needed to use the default
file format that is backward compatible all the way to Office 95. This file
format causes HUGE file bloat (as much as 40x the normal file size!) I
believe I have finally gotten the attention of the right people; it will be
easy to fix the ghost image for future accounts but they are stymied as to
how to fix the 5,000 existing accounts in an automated way. Is there a
registry setting they can "reach out" and change to select regular Word 2003
as the default document type?
--
Ann Scharpf

[Ann Scharpf]

I think that is EXACTLY what we need!!!!! I will pass it on.

Thank you!!!!
--
Ann Scharpf


"Pranav Vaidya" wrote:

I think this is possible by making the registry chage. For more detailed
documentation that you may want to pass on to the developers and networking
team can be found at

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257592

Hope this helps!!
--
Pranav Vaidya
VBA Developer
PN, MH-India
If you think my answer is useful, please rate this post as ANSWER!!


"Ann Scharpf" wrote:

Hi,

I am on a network with over 5,000 users. When they set us up, whoever
designed the system erroneously decided that we needed to use the default
file format that is backward compatible all the way to Office 95. This file
format causes HUGE file bloat (as much as 40x the normal file size!) I
believe I have finally gotten the attention of the right people; it will be
easy to fix the ghost image for future accounts but they are stymied as to
how to fix the 5,000 existing accounts in an automated way. Is there a
registry setting they can "reach out" and change to select regular Word 2003
as the default document type?
--
Ann Scharpf