My brother is having trouble sharing files saved with his Office 2007 with
people using earlier versions. How can he change the default save format to
something compatible with other versions?

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Thanks... Bob

Bob, let's say your brother wants to set Word 2007 to save files in a
previous Word document format. All he has to do is to click on the Office
button while in word, then click on the Word Options button at the bottom of
the resulting dialog. Then he can click on the Save item in the left pane of
the Word Options dialog. The topmost dropdown option in the right-hand pane
will let him choose which format to save as by default.

This works for the Office 2007 apps that have Office buttons in the top left
corner. The other Office apps, like Visio, would handle it a bit differently,
but I gather you're asking about the more "standard" apps.

"Bob Newman" wrote:

> My brother is having trouble sharing files saved with his Office 2007 with
> people using earlier versions. How can he change the default save format to
> something compatible with other versions?
>
> --
> Thanks... Bob
>
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