Default file name

[John Dough]

When I go to save any document the default file name in my save window is:
My Normal Template.rtf

I've put up with this for months, but it is ridiculous. Because it is three
separae words I can't just click on it to overwrite it with the name I want
to give the file. I have to carefully highlight the text. This really stinks
and I don't have that problem on my other Mac.

Anyone know what's going on with this?

 

[John McGhie [MVP]]

Hi John:

Virus, probably

The default name of a document is taken from the first line of text. But
the Save format should be .DOC, not RTF.

Update your virus checker and do a deep scan: one of the Word macro viruses
does this.

Check in Word>Preferences>Compatibility to ensure that you have not set the
RTF format as a default in there. If you have, I wouldn't. RTF is twice
the size and you lose features.

Cheers

When I go to save any document the default file name in my save window is:
My Normal Template.rtf

I've put up with this for months, but it is ridiculous. Because it is three
separae words I can't just click on it to overwrite it with the name I want
to give the file. I have to carefully highlight the text. This really stinks
and I don't have that problem on my other Mac.

Anyone know what's going on with this?

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[John Dough]

Virus on a Macintosh ???? Did not think this was likely and I never got an
anti-virus program, other than having Macro virus protection enabled in
prefs. Nothing else untoward ever happens.

I rtf set as the save format deliberately because I wanted to be sure that
if I sent attachments to people with older Windows systems (like Office 95)
that they would be able to read the documents. This isn't a good idea, I
take it....

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Hi John Dough,
Take a look at File, Properties...I think if you have something written in
there, it will get picked up as the default document name. You may need to
find Normal.dot and change it in the template.

Dayo

 

[John McGhie [MVP]]

Hi John:

Virus on a Macintosh ???? Did not think this was likely and I never got an
anti-virus program, other than having Macro virus protection enabled in
prefs. Nothing else untoward ever happens.

Yeah, there's a couple of hundred Mac viruses out there. Most of them are
pretty feeble: it's difficult to tell if you've got one. You could be
passing them on to your friends for years before you actually realise you're
infected.

But with current versions of Mac Office, you are vulnerable to many of the
VBA viruses that are currently doing the rounds, so I run a virus checker

I rtf set as the save format deliberately because I wanted to be sure that
if I sent attachments to people with older Windows systems (like Office 95)
that they would be able to read the documents. This isn't a good idea, I
take it....

I wouldn't do it. An RTF file is HUGE compared to a Word .doc file in the
later versions (which are compressed internally). Also, RTF does not
describe all of the features of the modern versions of Word.

Users of older versions of Word can obtain free reader software from
Microsoft that enables them to read your current-version files. And
actually, there are very few of them left now.

I think I would try a switch to .doc format and see if anyone complains

Cheers
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