Office 2007 Compatibilty mode with 2003

[Tony]

I have an environment where most of my existing users are Office 2003 with
SOME users (about 3) running 2007. If I go into Word 2007 and set the
compatibilty mode for "All New Documents" to 2003, it does not save the
setting. It allows me to make the change, but when I go back into Word and
check, it reverts back to 2007. I want all new documents created to be 2003
format, NOT 2007. Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[Gordon]

I have an environment where most of my existing users are Office 2003 with
SOME users (about 3) running 2007. If I go into Word 2007 and set the
compatibilty mode for "All New Documents" to 2003, it does not save the
setting. It allows me to make the change, but when I go back into Word
and
check, it reverts back to 2007. I want all new documents created to be
2003
format, NOT 2007. Any help greatly appreciated.

There was quite a long thread on this in the last week......

 

[Gordon]

I have an environment where most of my existing users are Office 2003 with
SOME users (about 3) running 2007. If I go into Word 2007 and set the
compatibilty mode for "All New Documents" to 2003, it does not save the
setting. It allows me to make the change, but when I go back into Word
and
check, it reverts back to 2007. I want all new documents created to be
2003
format, NOT 2007. Any help greatly appreciated.

And where are you doing this?

 

[Beth Melton]

If you are setting the Compatibility Options, at the bottom of the Advanced
options, then this isn't what you want. All this option does is set the
behavior of Word 2007 documents to those of Word 2003 - it will still save
the documents in the new file format. It's also a document specific option
which might explain why you aren't seeing the setting saved for the
application.

You want to set the default Save format, in the Save options to Word 97-2003
documents.

When a Word 97-2003 document is opened or saved in Word 2007 you'll see
Compatibility Mode in the title bar which is different from the
Compatibility options. Granted, the Compatibility options will be set for
Word 2003 behaviors when you save a document in the Word 97-2003 file
format, but that's only a portion of what Compatibility Mode actually does.

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