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Saving Word Documents for use at Work/School
The Problem:
You have a shiny new computer, and you went out and purchased Microsoft Office 2007 so you could type up your paper. But, those new Word files won’t work at school.
The Reason:
Microsoft changed their default document format from “.doc” to “.docx”. That makes it incompatible with older versions of Office (without a read-only converter). This has caused many headaches in the business/government/education world.
The Fix:
Do what the pros do: change the default file saving format in Word 2007.
Here’s how:
- Click the shiny gold Office button that’s located on the upper-left of the screen in Word 2007
- On the drop-down menu, go to the bottom and click the “Word Options” button.
- On the left side of the “Word Options” window, click “Save”
- Under the “Save documents” section, click on the drop-down box beside “Save files in this format”, then choose “Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc)”.
- Click the “OK’ button
Now all of your documents will be compatible with the rest of the world.
Note: This also works for Excel 2007 & PowerPoint 2007