People can’t open my Word 2007 documents.

One of the drawbacks of using Word 2007, is that people may not be able to easily open your documents. I remember the first time I received a document from someone who was using Word 2007, before I had migrated, I couldn’t open their document. I had to install a file converter. What a hassle. I’m sure many would have just written to the sender and said, “Sorry, I can’t open your documents.” Much of the world is using earlier versions of Word. To make it easy on those people, and less confusing for you, you can change the default save format to Word 97-2003.

From the Office Button in the top left corner, choose Word Options.

Click Save, then choose Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc) in the Save files in this format field.  So far I have seen no adverse affects from doing this.