Ok, but what about this: I take a blank Word document that has been saved
in the older Word format, and I drag it to the New tab of Tweak UI.
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> Larry,
> Word2007 has a converter built into it, to SAVE the files in the older
> versions of Word format. It can't create brand new documents/files in the
> old format.
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> You will need a pc with the older version of Word installed to do what you
> want.
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> Your point 1 is confusing. I was already told that by going to Options,
> Save I could set Word 2007 to save all documents in the Word 97-2003 file
> type. I've done that and it works. That's already happening, without
Word
> 97 being installed on the computer.
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> Your point 2 is also confusing. How can there be a shortcut to start an
> older version of Word if that version is not on the computer?
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> To repeat: Word 2007 running on Vista is already saving all documents in
> the Word 97-2003 file type. All that's needed now is one additional step,
> to create an item on the New menu (in Explorer) that will also create a
> document in the 97-2003 type. Since documents of that type already exist
on
> this computer, I see no reason why the New menu could not also create
> documents of that type.
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