Advanced File Management / Backward Compatibility
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From time to time you may be working with a Word document that's designed to be sent to someone who's using an older version of Word, such as Word 2003 or earlier. The File Formats used for earlier versions of Word were different to the File Formats used by Word 2007 and 2010. The Formats for those earlier versions had the .doc extension, not docx. If you need to save a document in a format that can be accessed by someone using an earlier version of Word you'll choose File and then Save As. And from the Save As Type drop-down list you'll select Word 97-2003 Document to give it the .doc extension. You can save it using the same Filename or change the Filename as desired and click Save. When you do this the Microsoft Word Compatibility Checker opens to warn you that some of the features used in this file are not compatible with earlier versions of Word. The SmartArt graphic won't be able to be edited in an earlier version of Word and the Text Effects are going to be removed. I'll click Continue. And now this document is saved as a Word 97-2003 Format File. We can tell this because it reads Compatibility Mode in the Title Bar. The Text Effect has been removed from the text here and the SmartArt Object is still in the document but it's not editable any longer. There's no Text Box to be able to make changes to it. There are some other changes to the way that Word works, too, when you're working with an earlier format file. Text Effects here on the Ribbon has been disabled and if I choose Insert and WordArt then WordArt doesn't look anything like what we're used to WordArt looking. This is the oldest style WordArt. This file, however, can be accessed, opened and edited by someone who's using an earlier version of Word. Let's close this file for now. And now let's assume that we've actually received that file from someone else so let's go and open it. And when we open it the file is opened as the earlier version document. If we've received this file from someone else and if we want to make changes to it using Word 2010 features we can do so, but first we need to convert this file to a Word 2010 Format File and to do that we'll choose File and then Info and then Convert and this will convert the document back to the Word 2010 Format. It doesn't reinstate the Text Effect because that was lost earlier, but the SmartArt Object is reinstated and it is editable and other features like Text Effects are not available because we're working in the Word 2010 Format and our WordArt has come back, too. Once I've converted this file to the Word 2010 Format, if I save it, it's going to be given the .docx extension. I'll click Save and the Save As dialog opens because I'm actually changing the Save As Type for this document to the newer format. I'll click Save and because we did already have a file of this name I'm asked if I want to replace it, which I will. With the file in the Word 2010 Format, it's not available to be opened by somebody with an earlier version of Word, for example, Word 2003 or earlier. The only way they can open it is to install a special Add-in program that's available from the Microsoft website and even then with the Add-in, they can only open and edit the file. The Add-in doesn't make available features like SmartArt and WordArt, which were new with Word 2010 and 2007.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Word 2010 |
| Author: | Helen Bradley |
| SKU: | 34149 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-42-9 |
| Release Date: | 2010-08-05 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 119 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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