As seen in Louisiana Bar Today - Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Tech Tip: Microsoft Office 2007 Files
Craig Bayer with Law Office Technology offers advice on Microsoft Office 2007 files. With the introduction of Office 2007, Microsoft introduced a new file format (.docx). A Word document before 2007 would be saved as .doc. Users with Office 2003 or lower cannot open this new .docx format unless a converter is first downloaded (free converter available at http://tinyurl.com/y4eeye). “Two years later, law firms are still running into problems with this new format. Clients and other attorneys seem unwilling or unsure how to download this free converter,” Bayer said. To save time and hassle, Bayer recommends firms using Office 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) change their settings so they save all their documents in the .doc format in the 97-2003 format. In Word, go to Options >Save >Save Files in this Format and change the format to Word 97-2003. Follow the steps in Excel and PowerPoint as well. For more information, go to Law Office Technology’s Web site, http://www.lawot.com.
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