Re: [SARES] saving Microsoft Office 2007 documents for others in 'compatible' formats

And for others on the receiving end, Microsoft has free converters for older 
versions of Office.

  - Skp

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Ott" <andreas@INTERNET. naund.org>
To: <sares-list@INTERNET. sunnyvaleares.org>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 2:24 PM
Subject: [SARES] saving Microsoft Office 2007 documents for others in 
'compatible' formats


> Hi,
>
> I know about the pain since my company 'upgraded' most but not all of
> the machine population to Microsoft Office 2007.
>
> If you care to save your documents in a format others can read with older
> versions of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), and also with Openoffice-2.*,
> Google Documents and a number of other programs, you can change the
> 'Save As' file format on a per file basis. If you always want to save
> your documents always in a backwards compatible format, please do this:
>
> Open 'Orb' (the upper left round button with the Office logo)
> -> bottom tab on that window is 'Word Options' or
> 'Excel Options'
> -> Save
> -> Pulldown menu on top
> 'Excel 97-2003 Workbook (*.xls) [NOT (*.xlsx)] or
> 'Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc)  [NOT (*.docx)]
>
> 73, andreas de K6OTT
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