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ASU English Home > Computing Support > Workshops and Tutorials > Tutorials > Changing your Word 2007 Default Save Options

If you often share files with Office 2003 users or need to submit files to instructors, it is recommended that you use the Word 97-2003 document format. This tutorial shows you how to set your default save option to the Word 97-2003 format.

Open Word.

Click on the Office Button (outlined in red)

Office Button

Click on Options (outlined in red)

Office Button

Click on Save (on the left) and then change "Save files in this format" to Word 97-2003 (outlined in red) and click OK.

Options

Now your documents will be readable by people with Word 97 through 2003.

©Bruce Matsunaga

 

 

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