Sam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a new laptop with windows vista OS and have just installed
> office 2007. my desktop at work is windows XP with office 2003.
>
> Now I know that you can save woprd documents as office 97(.doc) but
> whenever I save as this, it still saves the file as .docx
>
> I'm at my wit's end, as the entire package is useless if noone else
> can read my files! Any advice gratefully received.
>
> Thanks
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In Word 2007...saving as: 'Word.97 - 2003 Document'
should result in a file with the .doc extension.

Maybe this article will offer some ideas:

(925756) The "Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF
(*.doc)" file converter is missing in Word 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925756/en-us

Also try the following newsgroups:

Word General Questions
http://tinyurl.com/bdke4

Office General Questions
http://tinyurl.com/dxluy


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