word 2004 only saves in word 98

[steve]

Hello,
I've installed MAC OS 10.3 and m./soft office 2004 which is great.
One question - when I go to save a document in word 2004, it only
saves in old word 98 version (which is still on my computer as I have
os 9 available as classic)

Is there a simple way to stop this ie I want word 2004 docs to save as
word 2004!?

Thanks
Steve

 

[Rudy Kohut]

The "Save As..." dialog box specifically states that saving as a "Word
Document" is the default that is shared with Word 98 and other previous
versions. So, what do you mean by "old Word 98 version"?

 

[Oz Springs]

Word 2004 documents can be opened as a 98 document as they are usually
compatible (unless you find otherwise after doing a compatibility check).
However, you might want to try this.

Is the document you are trying to save originally a Word 98 document? If so,
once try to do a ³Save As...² (Edit menu) rather than a save.

Also, Under ³Preferences² in the Word menu, click on ³Save² and change what
you want to save a document as, for example as an .rtf. Then close Word,
then reopen the .rtf document and try saving it as a Word document. This
might make the document save as a 2004 document. And change the prefs back
to whatever format you want to save all your Word documents.

HTH



Oz

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi Steve.
When you're saying "Word 2004 saves in the old Word 98 version", do you mean
by this that when you double-click that Word document, Word 98 starts up in
the Classic environment? Or even that the icon for the file in the Finder
looks like the Word 98 file icon?
If this is so, and since you still have Word 98 installed, my guess is that
Word 2004 saves your documents the way it should, but it simply isn't
configured as the standard application for Word files. Try this: in the
Finder, select a Word file, no matter which one. Ctrl-click (right-click)
that file and select "Get Info" from the context menu. In that info window,
click the arrow next to "Open with". Is the application you see in that
window Word 98? If yes, click on the drop-down menu, see if you can find
Word 2004, and select it. Next, hit the "Change all" button, that way you
can be sure that from now on, Word 2004 will launch instead of the 98
version.
Hope that was helpful

Michel

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Note that there's really no such thing as a "98 document" or a "2004
document". The file formats are identical, as they are with
WinWord97/00/02/03, and MacWord01/v.X.

They're just "Word documents".

What you see (icons) or which application your start (98, 04) depends on
OSX file associations, not the file type.

 

[John McGhie]

Yes. Go to Word>Preferences>Save and change "Save Word files as" to "Word
Document"

Now, when you open a file from an older version, the default will be to save
it back to that same version. This should not affect you with Word 98,
because that product uses the same format.

If you do a File>Save As, you should see a Compatibility Report dialog. Run
the Compatibility report to see if your intended older format is going to
have any problems with the current content of the document.

The only problem I can think of that you might get with Word 98 is in
Tables. Word 98 does not support HTML-style nested tables. No loss, just
let it save...

Cheers

Hello,
I've installed MAC OS 10.3 and m./soft office 2004 which is great.
One question - when I go to save a document in word 2004, it only
saves in old word 98 version (which is still on my computer as I have
os 9 available as classic)

Is there a simple way to stop this ie I want word 2004 docs to save as
word 2004!?

Thanks
Steve

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