The other problem though was a tutor whose DOCX documents could not be opened by students... I can't really expect all the students to download the converter, and anyway many of them are using Open Office. So I suggested the tutor Save As "Word 97 etc." DOCs. That's a bit of a pain for her. Does anyone with Office 2007 know a way to make Word save in a compatible format as its default? If so please tell me the menu steps to achieve this and I can pass the good news on.
And MS call this OpenXML - in my view it is "open" like George Bush is a pacifist - in theory perhaps, in practice not really!
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Go to Word Options, from the main Office button menu right down at the bottom. In the dialiogue select "Save" from the menu, and choose 97-2003 format as your default.
Hope that helps.
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Doug Chaplin, at
June 9, 2007 10:03 AM
Thanks, Doug, I'll pass this on, could help those who use Word 2007 to communicate with the rest of us!
By Tim, at
June 9, 2007 11:55 AM
Did you know that OpenOffice is now into 2.2... they may have fixed it.
By Graham, at
June 9, 2007 7:22 PM
Thanks Graham, I haven't downloaded OO 2.2 yet, waiting for a day when I'm at home (so as not to tie up the college connection, and not using the Internet much... perhaps I should just start overnight downloads! (I suspect that for this issue it does not help, at least it's not mentioned on the "What's New" list.
By Tim, at
June 10, 2007 6:58 AM
