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Word options - save file in this format setting not sticking
Unlike everyone else on earth it seems, I DO want my docs to save as docx
files. But every time I change the setting, it goes back to 1997-03 format. Someone was having the same sticky problem but in reverse and it was suggested that they rename a particular Registry key, so I tried that but it had no effect. How can I make the setting stick?! |
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Word options - save file in this format setting not sticking
Start regedit. Navigate to the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Options registry key. Change the DefaultFormat data value to Docx. ceallagh wrote: Unlike everyone else on earth it seems, I DO want my docs to save as docx files. But every time I change the setting, it goes back to 1997-03 format. Someone was having the same sticky problem but in reverse and it was suggested that they rename a particular Registry key, so I tried that but it had no effect. How can I make the setting stick?! |
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Word options - save file in this format setting not sticking
I tried that. I don't have anything called DefaultFormat in there.
"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Start regedit. Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Options registry key. Change the DefaultFormat data value to Docx. ceallagh wrote: Unlike everyone else on earth it seems, I DO want my docs to save as docx files. But every time I change the setting, it goes back to 1997-03 format. Someone was having the same sticky problem but in reverse and it was suggested that they rename a particular Registry key, so I tried that but it had no effect. How can I make the setting stick?! |
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Word options - save file in this format setting not sticking
If your Word 2007 is defaulting to saving as Word 97-2003 .doc format,
then that key *must* be in there. If that key is not there, then your Word 2007 is *not* defaulting to save as Word 97-2003 .doc format, and your problem ahem is not what you describe in your question. ceallagh wrote: I tried that. I don't have anything called DefaultFormat in there. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Start regedit. Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0 \Word\Options registry key. Change the DefaultFormat data value to Docx. ceallagh wrote: Unlike everyone else on earth it seems, I DO want my docs to save as docx files. But every time I change the setting, it goes back to 1997-03 format. Someone was having the same sticky problem but in reverse and it was suggested that they rename a particular Registry key, so I tried that but it had no effect. How can I make the setting stick?! |
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Word options - save file in this format setting not sticking
Uh, thanks for the vote of confidence, but my problem ahem is exactly what
I describe. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: If your Word 2007 is defaulting to saving as Word 97-2003 .doc format, then that key *must* be in there. If that key is not there, then your Word 2007 is *not* defaulting to save as Word 97-2003 .doc format, and your problem ahem is not what you describe in your question. ceallagh wrote: I tried that. I don't have anything called DefaultFormat in there. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Start regedit. Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0 \Word\Options registry key. Change the DefaultFormat data value to Docx. ceallagh wrote: Unlike everyone else on earth it seems, I DO want my docs to save as docx files. But every time I change the setting, it goes back to 1997-03 format. Someone was having the same sticky problem but in reverse and it was suggested that they rename a particular Registry key, so I tried that but it had no effect. How can I make the setting stick?! |
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Word options - save file in this format setting not sticking
Just to be clear, you are talking about saving new documents, aren't you?
If so, saving as docx is the out-of-the-box default and if you are getting something else you must have explicitly changed something. -- Enjoy, Tony "ceallagh" wrote in message ... Uh, thanks for the vote of confidence, but my problem ahem is exactly what I describe. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: If your Word 2007 is defaulting to saving as Word 97-2003 .doc format, then that key *must* be in there. If that key is not there, then your Word 2007 is *not* defaulting to save as Word 97-2003 .doc format, and your problem ahem is not what you describe in your question. ceallagh wrote: I tried that. I don't have anything called DefaultFormat in there. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Start regedit. Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0 \Word\Options registry key. Change the DefaultFormat data value to Docx. ceallagh wrote: Unlike everyone else on earth it seems, I DO want my docs to save as docx files. But every time I change the setting, it goes back to 1997-03 format. Someone was having the same sticky problem but in reverse and it was suggested that they rename a particular Registry key, so I tried that but it had no effect. How can I make the setting stick?! |
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