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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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"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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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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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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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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Hi Doug
DougieVan wrote: John, Why did you accept the "MVP" designation? John will speak for himself in time. There are many MVPs awarded by Microsoft these days, and not everybody has got the title for the same community "achievements." For most MVPs you meet in this forum, newsgroups are a prime factor of their "MVPhood." But there are other users, other products, other communities. But many of us are "here" in the newsgroups because, well, we fought with the product like so many other users out there, we profited from feedback in here, and then we gradually started giving something back. Many will do so no matter any award or not. And many feel that, the more we start caring about ratings and some such nonsense, we don't do what we are here for: to learn, and to share. And many of the posters who do a lot of newsgroup postings are thinking pretty poorly of all web-based access mechanisms to the forums. [At least I do, for those I've seen so far -- FWIW :-)] It might be OK for somebody to ask a question once and read the answers. [Many comming through the web interface are having a hard time retrieving their original thread.] It's already pretty clunky to read a lot through the web interface. If you try writing 20 answers in a short time, then it simply won't cut it -- unless you access via NNTP. Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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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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Those "medals" only count when you use the Microsoft web interface. I think
it's safe to say that most MVPs do not use that. We use various newsreaders instead. (And mentioning an MVP award only impresses your boss if your boss has any idea what it is.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "DougieVan" wrote in message ... 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 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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I suppose I was, until recently unaware of the rift between NNTP responders
and those who use the web interface. I like to think, however, that I have been able to assist a few people using this less practical method despite my being concerned for the ratings "nonsense." -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: Hi Doug DougieVan wrote: John, Why did you accept the "MVP" designation? John will speak for himself in time. There are many MVPs awarded by Microsoft these days, and not everybody has got the title for the same community "achievements." For most MVPs you meet in this forum, newsgroups are a prime factor of their "MVPhood." But there are other users, other products, other communities. But many of us are "here" in the newsgroups because, well, we fought with the product like so many other users out there, we profited from feedback in here, and then we gradually started giving something back. Many will do so no matter any award or not. And many feel that, the more we start caring about ratings and some such nonsense, we don't do what we are here for: to learn, and to share. And many of the posters who do a lot of newsgroup postings are thinking pretty poorly of all web-based access mechanisms to the forums. [At least I do, for those I've seen so far -- FWIW :-)] It might be OK for somebody to ask a question once and read the answers. [Many comming through the web interface are having a hard time retrieving their original thread.] It's already pretty clunky to read a lot through the web interface. If you try writing 20 answers in a short time, then it simply won't cut it -- unless you access via NNTP. Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Would you say then that it is the consensus of MVPs that trying to earn the
medals is not a proper goal? Why then are the medals awarded? -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Those "medals" only count when you use the Microsoft web interface. I think it's safe to say that most MVPs do not use that. We use various newsreaders instead. (And mentioning an MVP award only impresses your boss if your boss has any idea what it is.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "DougieVan" wrote in message ... 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 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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Your best chance of being recognized as a potential MVP is to respond
regularly and accurately in the Microsoft forums over an extended period - accessing via the NNTP server is the simplest means of doing so - http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm . Being an MVP should not be considered as a goal in itself but as a reward for your contributions to the wider Microsoft community. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DougieVan wrote: Would you say then that it is the consensus of MVPs that trying to earn the medals is not a proper goal? Why then are the medals awarded? Those "medals" only count when you use the Microsoft web interface. I think it's safe to say that most MVPs do not use that. We use various newsreaders instead. (And mentioning an MVP award only impresses your boss if your boss has any idea what it is.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "DougieVan" wrote in message ... 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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Hi Doug:
Well, you have inadvertently asked three of the questions I find most difficult to answer :-) I really struggled with answering this, and I thank you for making me do it :-) To begin with, I am sure you have indeed helped many people with your answers, and I hope you will help many more. I, for one, congratulate you on your effort, and your knowledge! I am one of many MVPs who believe that chasing "ratings" is not a proper thing to do. It's a bit like touting for business in these news groups: it's not "illegal", but most of us wouldn't do it. But I guess your implied question is "Will getting a high rating help win the MVP award?" And that's a tough one to answer. It certainly won't hurt. But I doubt if it will have any effect, one way or the other. The process that considers us for the MVP award considers a wide range of factors. Our posting record is only part of it. When considering our posting record, they assess how many "correct" answers we give over the past 12 months (and compare that with the number of wrong answers we give during the same period ...). The ratings you speak of (which are different on the Microsoft, Google and Yahoo servers...) are not visible to, or considered by, the mechanism that considers candidates for the award. That may change in the future, but currently, the system can't see those ratings at all. Currently, the assessment is made by human beings: experienced and knowledgeable Microsoft staff assess a sample of our work manually, and grade the answers for correctness and completeness. Ultimately, the result is a person's judgement. These days, posting in the groups is not enough to get or maintain the award. The score is heavily biased towards other activities, such as websites, blogs, and particularly, face-to-face public engagements. It is also worth mentioning that a person who is obviously here just to get the award is unlikely to actually get it. The criteria has a very strong component of "public service" in the old fashioned sense of that term. They tend to be looking for the kind of person who is not only highly skilled, but enjoys helping others for its own sake, without expectation of 'reward'. Why did I accept the MVP award, back in 1997? Well, eventually they convinced me that I had earned it. Certainly not immediately. I remember that I refused to believe it when the first email turned up from Microsoft. I thought it was Spam, and send a very rude response!. Then it took me a while to believe that it wasn't a mistake :-) It's great to have you he I really value your contribution. I really hope you're having fun :-) Cheers On 5/2/07 7:19 PM, in article , "DougieVan" wrote: Would you say then that it is the consensus of MVPs that trying to earn the medals is not a proper goal? Why then are the medals awarded? -- 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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Thanks for your response John (and everyone else). I am in fact having fun
posting here and, as I mentioned, it is a great thing to do during "downtime" at work without going too far away from what I actually work on. But to go back to the main point of this thread: why would I ask someone to mark my response as helpful/answered? I realise now that I probably should not do this anymore since it seems to irk some people. However, I had only done it in the very limited circumstance of having answered a question and having been thanked by a response (which has only been like three times). In two cases, I have continued to converse with the poster via e-mail after asking him to mark the question as answered, and one of the people told me he was glad for the opportunity to pay me back in some way for my assistance. Nevertheless, I don't want to violate the unwritten rules of this community, so in the future I won't ask people for feedback and rather just hope to get it. Thanks for your explanation, 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: Well, you have inadvertently asked three of the questions I find most difficult to answer :-) I really struggled with answering this, and I thank you for making me do it :-) To begin with, I am sure you have indeed helped many people with your answers, and I hope you will help many more. I, for one, congratulate you on your effort, and your knowledge! I am one of many MVPs who believe that chasing "ratings" is not a proper thing to do. It's a bit like touting for business in these news groups: it's not "illegal", but most of us wouldn't do it. But I guess your implied question is "Will getting a high rating help win the MVP award?" And that's a tough one to answer. It certainly won't hurt. But I doubt if it will have any effect, one way or the other. The process that considers us for the MVP award considers a wide range of factors. Our posting record is only part of it. When considering our posting record, they assess how many "correct" answers we give over the past 12 months (and compare that with the number of wrong answers we give during the same period ...). The ratings you speak of (which are different on the Microsoft, Google and Yahoo servers...) are not visible to, or considered by, the mechanism that considers candidates for the award. That may change in the future, but currently, the system can't see those ratings at all. Currently, the assessment is made by human beings: experienced and knowledgeable Microsoft staff assess a sample of our work manually, and grade the answers for correctness and completeness. Ultimately, the result is a person's judgement. These days, posting in the groups is not enough to get or maintain the award. The score is heavily biased towards other activities, such as websites, blogs, and particularly, face-to-face public engagements. It is also worth mentioning that a person who is obviously here just to get the award is unlikely to actually get it. The criteria has a very strong component of "public service" in the old fashioned sense of that term. They tend to be looking for the kind of person who is not only highly skilled, but enjoys helping others for its own sake, without expectation of 'reward'. Why did I accept the MVP award, back in 1997? Well, eventually they convinced me that I had earned it. Certainly not immediately. I remember that I refused to believe it when the first email turned up from Microsoft. I thought it was Spam, and send a very rude response!. Then it took me a while to believe that it wasn't a mistake :-) It's great to have you he I really value your contribution. I really hope you're having fun :-) Cheers On 5/2/07 7:19 PM, in article , "DougieVan" wrote: Would you say then that it is the consensus of MVPs that trying to earn the medals is not a proper goal? Why then are the medals awarded? -- 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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That's a real good question - and to be honest with you, I haven't a clue
what the purpose of those medals could be. I don't worry about it. I read and respond to the groups in Outlook Express so I'm not exactly racking up whatever counts to accumulate medals. That's *not* why I try to help. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "DougieVan" wrote in message ... Would you say then that it is the consensus of MVPs that trying to earn the medals is not a proper goal? Why then are the medals awarded? -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Those "medals" only count when you use the Microsoft web interface. I think it's safe to say that most MVPs do not use that. We use various newsreaders instead. (And mentioning an MVP award only impresses your boss if your boss has any idea what it is.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "DougieVan" wrote in message ... 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 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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Hmmmm.... we're missing out on SWAG!!!! g
Dan "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... That's a real good question - and to be honest with you, I haven't a clue what the purpose of those medals could be. I don't worry about it. I read and respond to the groups in Outlook Express so I'm not exactly racking up whatever counts to accumulate medals. That's *not* why I try to help. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "DougieVan" wrote in message ... Would you say then that it is the consensus of MVPs that trying to earn the medals is not a proper goal? Why then are the medals awarded? -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Those "medals" only count when you use the Microsoft web interface. I think it's safe to say that most MVPs do not use that. We use various newsreaders instead. (And mentioning an MVP award only impresses your boss if your boss has any idea what it is.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "DougieVan" wrote in message ... 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 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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Normally I like swag but this is one time when I'm willing to pass on it.
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Dan Freeman" wrote in message ... Hmmmm.... we're missing out on SWAG!!!! g Dan "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... That's a real good question - and to be honest with you, I haven't a clue what the purpose of those medals could be. I don't worry about it. I read and respond to the groups in Outlook Express so I'm not exactly racking up whatever counts to accumulate medals. That's *not* why I try to help. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "DougieVan" wrote in message ... Would you say then that it is the consensus of MVPs that trying to earn the medals is not a proper goal? Why then are the medals awarded? -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Those "medals" only count when you use the Microsoft web interface. I think it's safe to say that most MVPs do not use that. We use various newsreaders instead. (And mentioning an MVP award only impresses your boss if your boss has any idea what it is.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "DougieVan" wrote in message ... 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 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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That makes two of us, sis.
Dan "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... Normally I like swag but this is one time when I'm willing to pass on it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Dan Freeman" wrote in message ... Hmmmm.... we're missing out on SWAG!!!! g Dan "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... That's a real good question - and to be honest with you, I haven't a clue what the purpose of those medals could be. I don't worry about it. I read and respond to the groups in Outlook Express so I'm not exactly racking up whatever counts to accumulate medals. That's *not* why I try to help. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "DougieVan" wrote in message ... Would you say then that it is the consensus of MVPs that trying to earn the medals is not a proper goal? Why then are the medals awarded? -- Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Office System Solutions Specialist 3Sharp http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/ "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: Those "medals" only count when you use the Microsoft web interface. I think it's safe to say that most MVPs do not use that. We use various newsreaders instead. (And mentioning an MVP award only impresses your boss if your boss has any idea what it is.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "DougieVan" wrote in message ... 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 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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Hi Dougie
DougieVan wrote: I suppose I was, until recently unaware of the rift between NNTP responders and those who use the web interface. I like to think, however, that I have been able to assist a few people using this less practical method despite my being concerned for the ratings "nonsense." And I'm in no way saying that you can't help a user equally well no matter how you connect to the newsgroup/forum. [Heck, we would all help them best when we visit them and look over their shoulders ... :-)] If you try a newsreader once, I'm sure you'll notice the speed difference. Plus you can download a whole group, write some answers offline, and submit them all at once in the end -- no chance through a web interface. 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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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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Hi Doug,
One issue, rather than any perceive rule, with asking folks to rate the post is that unless the person posting the question did so, using the same method, app and access point to see the message that you are replying to they may not have any idea what you mean, as they won't see a rating selector  The newsgroups are copied/cloned/slurped to a lot of 'help' websites where they appear, labeled as being their own 'forums' or 'message boards' (MS's community interface is sort of doing that from their newsgroups, or vice versa g). It's not unusual forthese sites to require you to 'register' to post (something you don't need to do with Outlook Express and using the NNTP newsgroup access via news://msnews.microsoft.com ) and some even charge a subscription fee, basically for the 'convenience' of a onestop shop. Here is an example of where this newsgroup appears with different branding, and to the person visiting through one of those sites, it appears that the site has its own very active community of 'experts' and those seeking help From Wugnet: http://help.wugnet.com/index.php http://help.wugnet.com/office/Docume...forum-108.html At the bottom right of each message there is a 'login to vote' choice that is depending on the site, often for a completely separate rating system. You can sometimes know that one of these sites is where folks are viewing as the bottom of their post will have something like 'posted from...' on the bottom of it. There are quite a few independent sites with their own discussion groups and lists, that don't copy the forums over Wugnet, for example, also manages the separate Office forums on Compuserve http://community.compuserve.com/msoffice "DougieVan" wrote in message ... Thanks for your response John (and everyone else). I am in fact having fun posting here and, as I mentioned, it is a great thing to do during "downtime" at work without going too far away from what I actually work on. But to go back to the main point of this thread: why would I ask someone to mark my response as helpful/answered? I realise now that I probably should not do this anymore since it seems to irk some people. However, I had only done it in the very limited circumstance of having answered a question and having been thanked by a response (which has only been like three times). In two cases, I have continued to converse with the poster via e-mail after asking him to mark the question as answered, and one of the people told me he was glad for the opportunity to pay me back in some way for my assistance. Nevertheless, I don't want to violate the unwritten rules of this community, so in the future I won't ask people for feedback and rather just hope to get it. Thanks for your explanation, Doug -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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