word attachment

[m.s]

I recently bought microsoft office home and student 2007 which has a word
2007. I installed this program to my hp computer which has windows vista.
Everytime I make a new document using word 2007 and send this thru email
attachment it always shows docx instead of doc at the end and whenever they
try to open the attachment i sent they could not read it. Is it because they
have old version of the word or the new version of the word 2007 has always
docx at the end instead of doc.? Please help me. i am going to start my
online class and could not send my assignments to my instructor because they
could not open the attachment which has docx. at the end. Please give me
advice on what to do... thanks

 

[Graham Mayor]

The standard file format for Word 2007 is DOCX, a compressed version of XML.
If you want to save as Word document DOC format use should save as Word
97-2003 format. Even then some of your recipients may experience problems -
see http://www.gmayor.com/Problems_opening_2007_docs.htm . Ideally your
recipients should install the compatibility pack, which will additionally
give them the 2007 font set
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101686761033.aspx but this is
not something you should expect of them - and certainly not the on-line
class.

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[Jules]

Hi m.s

They should fix this themselves. You can make sure your document is saved as
a .doc by going to
Pizza Button
Word Options (at bottom)
Save
Click in first dropdown window and select third option Word 97-2003 document
That sets it permanently as a Word option.

OR

You can just do a manual Save As and select the third option in the dropdown
Word 97-2003 document .doc
And make sure Checkbox is checked to maintain compatibility with Word
97-2003.

Remember not to use any 2007 features which are not backwards compatible as
they will be lost on saving.

Hope this helps.