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Changing the Desktop Menu "Default File" type for Office 2007
Sorry for the wordy subject; but I'm not sure how to describe that feature.
To describe what I'm talking about: When a user right-clicks on a basic desktop, they're given a menu w/ the option to create new files. This is also available in the File menu, when using explorer. So... at our company, we have Office 2007 installed. However, we are attempting to keep our files in the older .doc, .xls, etc. formats until we're comfortable that most of our vendors are ready to begin exchanging files in the newer formats. Therefore, we've changed the "Save files in this format" settings in Office to the older versions. However, some of our users have been in the habit of creating files using the desktop file creation method above. When they do this, the file created is a newer format: xlsx, docx, etcx. Also, since the file is immediately created at this point, the file type is preserved into the newer format, unless they distinctively change it. While they don't know (nor probably care) which type of document they're creating/saving, we'd like to stop this by forcing some rule or GPO. I've combed over the registry and GPs to change this setting, but have been unsuccessful. Any thoughts? |
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Changing the Desktop Menu "Default File" type for Office 2007
Hi all,
I'm bumping this as I also need an answer to refurbmike's question. We are also sticking to .doc and .xls for now. Another side to this problem is that I need to figure out how in the "save as" menu, how do I make the option that says "word document" respect the default save format that I have set (in my case .doc)? Right now that option saves as docx instead of respecting the default format I have chosen. Thanks! Ryan "refurbmike" wrote: Sorry for the wordy subject; but I'm not sure how to describe that feature. To describe what I'm talking about: When a user right-clicks on a basic desktop, they're given a menu w/ the option to create new files. This is also available in the File menu, when using explorer. So... at our company, we have Office 2007 installed. However, we are attempting to keep our files in the older .doc, .xls, etc. formats until we're comfortable that most of our vendors are ready to begin exchanging files in the newer formats. Therefore, we've changed the "Save files in this format" settings in Office to the older versions. However, some of our users have been in the habit of creating files using the desktop file creation method above. When they do this, the file created is a newer format: xlsx, docx, etcx. Also, since the file is immediately created at this point, the file type is preserved into the newer format, unless they distinctively change it. While they don't know (nor probably care) which type of document they're creating/saving, we'd like to stop this by forcing some rule or GPO. I've combed over the registry and GPs to change this setting, but have been unsuccessful. Any thoughts? |
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