Possible to automatically Save As - 2007

[Angyl]

Boss has asked me to look into upgrading our Office software (FINALLY)!
We'll be moving from 2000 (and in some cases Office 95 EEK!) and he wants
2003 because of the backward compatibility with Office2007.

I know Office 2007 can save AS .doc rather than .docx and he knows that as
well but doesn't want to have to rely on employees always remembering to do
that so here's the question:

Is it possible to configure 2007 to AUTOMATICALLY default to saving 2003
compatible documents?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Yes...

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

If you happen to have a copy of Word 2007 hanging around... Office button -
Word Options - Save tab,and set "Save files in this format" to Word 97-2003
(*.doc).

 

[writer]

This gives the method for saving individual files into Word 97 - 2003, but
like angyl, I need to be able to do it automatically. How do you set a
default?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is exactly what Herb described. The method for individual files would
be to choose the format in the Save As dialog.