Re: Word 2007: How to Force Compatibility Mode for New Docs

I gave it a try here too, and I see the same behavior. It does look like a bug.

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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" <herb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:99B52961-5255-4163-BC38-EA9D32915D1D@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

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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"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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