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Change Word 2007 default file format?
Is there a way to change the default Word 2007 file format to .doc instead of
..docx? I need to share my documents with people who use Word 2003 and previous versions, and I would rather not have to do Save As each time. |
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Hi Bill,
Coincidentally, I just posted about this last night: http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/a...2/03/2856.aspx. Check out the second paragraph under "Option 2." I hope this helps, Doug -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "Bill Meacham" wrote: Is there a way to change the default Word 2007 file format to .doc instead of .docx? I need to share my documents with people who use Word 2003 and previous versions, and I would rather not have to do Save As each time. |
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Very helpful. Thanks!
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I'm glad it could help. I would appreciate it if you could mark this post as
having answered your question in the forum. -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "Bill Meacham" wrote: Very helpful. Thanks! |
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Hi Doug:
Why would you ask him to do that? Does anyone take any notice of those silly ratings? I wonder if you know that most of the posters in here are coming in via NNTP or some other site and can't even SEE the ratings :-) Cheers On 4/2/07 7:01 AM, in article , "DougieVan" wrote: I'm glad it could help. I would appreciate it if you could mark this post as having answered your question in the forum. -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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Most of the posters here are *not* coming via NNTP. You and I are, as well
as many of those who *answer* the questions, but most of those who are actually *posting* questions are coming via the Web site, as evidenced by their @discussions.microsoft.com addresses. -- 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. "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote in message ... Hi Doug: Why would you ask him to do that? Does anyone take any notice of those silly ratings? I wonder if you know that most of the posters in here are coming in via NNTP or some other site and can't even SEE the ratings :-) Cheers On 4/2/07 7:01 AM, in article , "DougieVan" wrote: I'm glad it could help. I would appreciate it if you could mark this post as having answered your question in the forum. -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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John,
Why did you accept the "MVP" designation? Doug -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote: Hi Doug: Why would you ask him to do that? Does anyone take any notice of those silly ratings? I wonder if you know that most of the posters in here are coming in via NNTP or some other site and can't even SEE the ratings :-) Cheers On 4/2/07 7:01 AM, in article , "DougieVan" wrote: I'm glad it could help. I would appreciate it if you could mark this post as having answered your question in the forum. -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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John,
In retrospect, my previous response was overly glib. I request that people mark my responses as having answered the question when warranted in order to increase my reputation within the community and to mark myself as a reliable source of information about Office. As someone new to the profession, and even newer to working as an Office Solutions Specialist, I am searching for ways to increase my participation and enhance my abilities. I am not sure if you are aware, but when you get to 50 questions answered, you get a bronze medal next to your name in these forums. You get the silver medal at 100 and the bronze at 500. MVPs get an MVP badge. While I don't pretend that getting a bronze medal is a "great" accomplishment, it is something. Additionally, I hope to become an MVP in the next few years, and since community participation is one of the considerations for MVP status, I see participation here, and my reliability here, as one of the means to achieve that goal. Additionally, obtaining one of the medals is something I can mention when reviewing my performance with my boss as evidence of my professional development and my involvement in the Microsoft Office community. Since I am helping people here largely voluntarily (though I do admit that I often post during "down time" at work or while waiting for things to load, copy, or save, and I do have the alterior motive of having my posts drive traffic to my blog), I do not feel bad about asking people to mark my questions as helpful. I have spent as much as several hours on individual responses (usually much less!), so asking for a few seconds doesn't seem too overbearing. I also only try to ask when I have clearly answered the question and the poster has responded thanking me for my post. Doug -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote: Hi Doug: Why would you ask him to do that? Does anyone take any notice of those silly ratings? I wonder if you know that most of the posters in here are coming in via NNTP or some other site and can't even SEE the ratings :-) Cheers On 4/2/07 7:01 AM, in article , "DougieVan" wrote: I'm glad it could help. I would appreciate it if you could mark this post as having answered your question in the forum. -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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"DougieVan" wrote: I'm glad it could help. I would appreciate it if you could mark this post as having answered your question in the forum. -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "Bill Meacham" wrote: Very helpful. Thanks! |
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Thanks Bill.
-- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "Bill Meacham" wrote: done "DougieVan" wrote: I'm glad it could help. I would appreciate it if you could mark this post as having answered your question in the forum. -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "Bill Meacham" wrote: Very helpful. Thanks! |
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Does anyone know the physical location of the setting? Either registry key
or configuration file. I need to write a script to run on 2007 users' laptops so we won't run into .docx vs. .doc compatability issues. Our launch of office 2007 is still a few months away and in the mean time we're trying to avoid any headaches. "DougieVan" wrote: Hi Bill, Coincidentally, I just posted about this last night: http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/a...2/03/2856.aspx. Check out the second paragraph under "Option 2." I hope this helps, Doug -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "Bill Meacham" wrote: Is there a way to change the default Word 2007 file format to .doc instead of .docx? I need to share my documents with people who use Word 2003 and previous versions, and I would rather not have to do Save As each time. |
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Hi Patrick,
The Word 2007 default file format setting is in HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Options\DefaultFormat However, if you're going to be doing a rollout of Office you can set that using the Office 2007 Customization tool and the information in the Office 2007 Resource Kit. http://microsoft.com/office/ork Using that default setting (and there are related ones that are stored in the Word binary \Data key at the same location and a couple of policies you may want to look at. Limiting to the Word 2003 format will turn off some of the newer features of Word 2007. ================= "Patrick O'Connor" Patrick wrote in message ... Does anyone know the physical location of the setting? Either registry key or configuration file. I need to write a script to run on 2007 users' laptops so we won't run into .docx vs. .doc compatability issues. Our launch of office 2007 is still a few months away and in the mean time we're trying to avoid any headaches. -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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