Comments on: How to Change Default File Saving Format from Docx to Doc in Word 2007

By: Yv

Yv — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:27:40 +0000

Thanks mate! really helpful x

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:51:12 +0000

Thank you so much. This was so easy and is going to make all my headaches go away. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

By: Preeti

Preeti — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:06:35 +0000

Wow, that was easy. Thanks for the writeup buddy.

By: Thanks =D

Thanks =D — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:17:04 +0000

yayyyy thanks so much =] (my teacher kept telling me I needed to submit it in Doc form and i didn’t know how >.<) Sooooo thanks again ^^!!!

By: RoySubs

RoySubs — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:01:23 +0000

Hi, this is great, but could you update this article with how to change the New Document formats when you right-click on the Desktop and select:

-> New -> New Word Documet
or
-> New -> New Excel Document

These still default to creating .docx and .xlsx documents ! If I want Office 2003 to be my default save format as you explain above, this becomes quite frustrating when I am creating new documents, so a complete solution should hopefully alter those New Document formats as well.

If you (or anyone else reading this !) have a solution for this, that would be greatly appreciated !!

Thanks.

By: Vern

Vern — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:00:08 +0000

Hi! Thanks a bunch for taking time to write this up. I hadn’t yet searched for how to save in the .doc format, but I sure needed to! Now I can quickly tell fellow students and colleagues where to find this time-saving change.

By: doofy

doofy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:30:37 +0000

Yes, thanks for this. All of a sudden clients complaining, “Can’t open the file!” Would like to tell them to go find the converter like I had to do ~2 years ago, but oh well…

By: A

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:04:43 +0000

Thank you very much, that was really helpful!!!!