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

The Microsoft site for downloading (and describing) the converters is:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

  - Skip AA6WK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Skip La Fetra AA6WK" <AA6WK@INTERNET. LaFetra.com>
To: "Andreas Ott" <andreas@INTERNET. naund.org>; <sares-list@INTERNET. sunnyvaleares.org>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:40 PM
Subject: 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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