Default Save as DOC and XLS

How to make Office 2007 always save in Office 97-2003 format

David Overton's Blog — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:24:34 GMT

This is another area I get a lot of questions, so I thought I would share the answer. While my person

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ak47 — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:09:47 GMT

The problem that I have is that when I set the default save ext to xls in office 2007, my financial program (cabs) cannot export to excel 2007 correctly..

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Russ (SBITS.Biz) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:18:02 GMT

I like Tims Solution.

Even though I'm the WORST person when it comes to "CHANGE"

(I still use a paper notepad for tracking phone calls)

We really need to move forward.

Yes Lawyers are the last to move forward.

(Example Electronic Signature is legal now since 2000)

And I have yet to know a lawyer to even likes this change.

But Giving them a link to install the viewer IMO would be good

Surely your "eviroment" needs to be addressed.

But the Reason I don't like to change it, is because of the future, 2008. (What will we miss out if we don't force a change?)

I hate change, but sometimes we really do need to do the right thing.

and as you know, that's different for each client.

Example: Government Clients are the worse for change...

Russ

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AdamV — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:42:26 GMT

Actually there seem to be various bugs in these ADM files.

They are normal, old-style ADM files, not ADMX, and nothing to do with the new Vista format. In fact, it's really odd that there are no ADMX versions of these as yet.

The CPAO.adm file you are having trouble with relates to the Calendar Printing Assistant - if you are not trying to policy that then your best bet would be to not 'suck it up' in the first place along with the others.

You will almost certainly get an error with the Outlook template too - read this post on my blog about the error and the fix:

veroblog.wordpress.com/.../office-2007-group-policy-error-in-outlook-adm-file

Frankly it's very annoying that these known errors are still in the files available to download - why not release a fixed version?

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bradley — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:27:27 GMT

Nope. We need to save as .doc and .xls for compatability outside the firm.

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Tim Long — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:12:01 GMT

Did you consider the alternative of rolling out the compatibility add-on for older versions of Office? That enables older versions of Office to both read and write the new OpenXML formats. Of course you would still potentially have compatibility problems when sharing documents with people outside the company.

--Tim