Re: Word 2007: How to Force Compatibility Mode for New Docs
- From: "Herb Tyson [MVP]" <herb@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:33:18 -0400
I can affirm that I'm seeing exactly what you see, and I agree that it's a bug. Getting Microsoft to agree that it's a bug, however, might be a little more difficult.
The only work-around I'm aware of is to immediately save a new document -- thereby naming it -- which then forces it into compatibility mode.
Note. There actually are TWO Word 97-2003 options, and only one of them (the one that reads: "Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc)" actually works to give you a compatibility mode document when saved. The 2nd one (which doesn't result in a compatibility mode document) is "Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF (*.doc)". The latter document type willingly accepts SmartArt, so I'm guessing that .rtf has been updated. Why is says "97-2003" instead of "97-2007" however, is beyond me.
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Herb Tyson MS MVP
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"funnybroad" <funnybroad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:15054758-7C50-4507-A1C8-D35092855CFA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for responding.
That is a really good question, and the technical lead on our Office 2007
Deployment Project team asked the same thing. But unfortunately, that's not
the case. I can indeed use all "new features", such as Themes, SmartArt (the
new stuff comes up), etc...
Can you do me a favor, and try it on your installation of Word 2007? I
posted this over on Tek-Tips, and someone there reported the same behavior,
although he said he didn't think it's a "bug". What's your opinion? I think
if an application doesn't behave as described in the resource kit, it's a
bug.
It may sound like I'm making a big deal over a small thing (all I have to do
is save it once... so what's the problem?)
The problem is that we've got to roll this out to 20,000+ workstations, and
due to new file format incompatibilities with some of the applications we
run, we are going to have to stay with the legacy file formats until those
applications can catch up next year. I'd rather fix this behavior with Word
2007, rather than try to get 20,000+ users to remember to always save their
newly created document before they start to edit it, so that they don't
inadvertently use a new feature that isn't 100% feature-refresh.
"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote:
When you click on the SmartArt icon, do you get the new SmartArt stuff
or the old org chart thing? If you get the org chart thing, then you are
in Compatibility Mode and it just doesn't show it until you save it
once.
Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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