office 07 documents writing over 03 documents

[Jason]

over the weekend, our office upgraded to all new hardware, server os, and
office 07. All of our data is in 03 format. When i open it and edit it, it
still saves it in 03 .doc format for example in word. i know you can "save
as" the 07 .xml format, but it creates another file and no way do i need two
of everything.

is there anyway to open any office 03 document, and let excel, word, or
whatever automatically overwrite that 03 document in the 07 format?

thanks
Jason

 

[DL]

Since a 03 format file is completely different to a 07 format file one is
not going to overwrite the other

 

[Jason]

so what do most people do? just continue using 03 documents. my office has
1,000's. it takes a few steps to open, convert, save a different format,
etc., plus we'll have 2 files of everything. i wondered what most people did?

 

[Gordon]

so what do most people do? just continue using 03 documents. my office has
1,000's. it takes a few steps to open, convert, save a different format,
etc., plus we'll have 2 files of everything. i wondered what most people
did?

Try this:
http://www.labnol.org/software/bulk-convert-office-documents-in-2007-format/4291/

 

[DL]

I cannot answer for most people, but since 2007 reads all 03 docs, and can
continue to save 03 docs in the old format, I cannot see that it would be
neccessary to convert all, or even 03 docs that you edit.
Archiving off duplicated docs would be a fairly simple process.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Jason,

What your company's default file format use may be can depend in part on how many files are used internally vs how many are sent
outside. The Word 97-2003 format (.doc) is currently more widely used than it's replacement (.docx/.docm).

If you open a Word 2003 document and choose Office Button=>Convert, when you save the document the default behavior is to replace
the .doc file with the .docX version, however your company may have elected to change that behavior to preserve both the old and new
copies to lower chances of lost data or changes in layout/feature sets.

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so what do most people do? just continue using 03 documents. my office has
1,000's. it takes a few steps to open, convert, save a different format,
etc., plus we'll have 2 files of everything. i wondered what most people did? <<
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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