Office 07 save as type .doc

Guest2 · 18 Jun 2009 at 16:04

How do I set the word save option as type .doc instead of .docx as below

http://www.walterglenn.com/2007/01/13/save-as-doc-instead-of-docx-in-word-2007/

but for all Office 2007 packages and without doing it individually for 80 computers.

Can this be done through a group policy option or by creating something for group policy?

We have 20 odd computers on Office 2007 and when they save it always saves as .docx, xlsx etc this means other employees and clients cannot open the files.

Thanks

something daft already!! · 18 Jun 2009 at 16:06

Perhaps I should read it correctly next time.

TheVoice · 18 Jun 2009 at 16:09

In the options, under the Save category.

Guest2 · 18 Jun 2009 at 16:13

Found it, can be done in GP using a template

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178949.aspx

Thanks anyway people

Guest2 · 18 Jun 2009 at 16:59

Looks like those templates are not compatible with windows server 03. just 08 and vista.

back to hunting...

Smorgasbord · 18 Jun 2009 at 17:11

In Word 07 you cna click the Office ORB and select Word Options, in here somewhere there is an option to set Office 97-03 format as default - if that's what you're looking for. I can be more precise when i find out for sure

lokkers · 18 Jun 2009 at 17:41

Guest2 said:
We have 20 odd computers on Office 2007 and when they save it always saves as .docx, xlsx etc this means other employees and clients cannot open the files.

Would it not be easier to install the compatibility pack on the other machines?

DustyMiller · 18 Jun 2009 at 19:08

there is a GP template set for Office 2007 on Windows XP / Server 2003. Use it at work for all of our Office 2007 machine to do exactly what you want to do.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=73d955c0-da87-4bc2-bbf6-260e700519a8&displaylang=en

Guest2 · 19 Jun 2009 at 08:55

DustyMiller said:
there is a GP template set for Office 2007 on Windows XP / Server 2003. Use it at work for all of our Office 2007 machine to do exactly what you want to do.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=73d955c0-da87-4bc2-bbf6-260e700519a8&displaylang=en

Im looking for this but compatible with Windows server 2003 and XP OS. Not many businesses use Windows server 08 and vista yet

'It also includes an \Admin folder with an updated Office Customization Tool, and ADMX, ADML, and ADM versions of the 2007 Microsoft Office system Administrative Template files for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. For Administrative Template files, you may use the ADM files for any Windows operating system, or the combination of ADMX and language-specific ADML files on computers running at least Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008.

Guest2 · 19 Jun 2009 at 08:56

Smorgasbord said:
In Word 07 you cna click the Office ORB and select Word Options, in here somewhere there is an option to set Office 97-03 format as default - if that's what you're looking for. I can be more precise when i find out for sure

Im looking for something that will do this in group policy to lots of machines, or a bit of script i can add to a login script.

edit - They would also need to go into excel, word and publisher, click the orb and select .doc .xls so 20 people would need to do 3 things each (then another 70 or 80 machines quite soon)

JonnyT · 19 Jun 2009 at 12:00

You need the following files:

http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/...C0-DA87-4BC2-BBF6-260E700519A8&displaylang=en

This contains GP templates for 2008 (ADMX) and also 2003 (ADM). Extract the exe using 7-zip or similar. The files you need are:

excel12.adm.en-us (Excel)
excel12.opa.en-us
outlk12.adm.en-us (Outlook)
outlk12.opa.en-us
office12.adm.en-us (Office)
office12.opa.en-us
ppt12.adm.en-us (Powerpoint)
ppt12.opa.en-us
pub12.adm.en-us (Publisher)
pub12.opa.en-us
word12.adm.en-us (Word)
word12.opa.en-us

Remove the '.en-us' from the end of the filenames (to leave them as just .adm and .opa) and then copy them to %systemroot%\inf on the server. Then open the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) and create and link a new GPO named 'Office Settings'.

Right click on the 'Office Settings' GPO and select 'Edit' this will open the settings window. Add the ADM files you copied earlier to the Administrative Templates' section under 'User Configuration' and set the GPO settings as required.

e.g. for Excel, you'd need to go to:

Microsoft Excel 2007 -> Excel Options -> Save - > Default file format