You know you are sitting around knocking out some documents on Word. It’s the end of the day and you finish up, save them and then email them off to the world or at least people that need them. You jump in the car and head home. Turn up the radio and roll down the windows…free at last!!! That’s when the phone rings…”Bob, that file you sent me…I can’t open it and I need it now!!!“ Damn it! Back to the office.
We are just going through an upgrade to Office 2007 and not everyone is fortunate to have the made the transition or purchased the upgrade for their home computers yet. Microsoft did not make Office 2007 backwards compatible. What? They make the default settings on Word 2007 so that anyone with an older version of Word cannot open the files. That has become very annoying. So, I have created a little video for you using Jing (great free product) I need to work on my casting voice, but you will get the point I hope. This fix not only works for Word but also Excel. If you make these changes on Word and Excel, you could be at Happy Hour by now.
Changing Save Defaults for Word 2007
Have a great weekend.
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I found a better work around. I never send MS office files to people and I have not upgraded. I use google docs instead.
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