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by dburrows

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I work in an IT department for a county government; we support around 500 desktops. We are ready to deploy Office 2007 throughout all the various departments, and this question was raised: As people open an existing document in a shared (department) directory and then save it in the new 2007 format, how can we keep duplicate copies of files in differant file formats from existing on the same directory?
Is there an application which can convert existing documents into the new file format without simply opening every file in Office?
Any ideas? TIA!

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by himdownstairs

Your older office documents will be compatible with 2007. Once you've gotten everything deployed, users should be instructed to save everything in 97-2003 file format. This will keep from creating duplicate copies with different extensions (i.e. .doc vs. .docx)

by ben.rattigan

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097(TechNet.10).aspx

See the link to the Office 2007 Customization Tool. This allows you to create an MSP file which can be run locally or distributed through a Group Policy. You can use this to force saving on 97-2003 file format. However be aware that you will lose out on some of the new features of 2007 when saving in 97-2003 format.

I deployed 2007 in Q2 2007 and the only real problems I have had is with a few Access 2000/2003 macros which needed modifying for Access reports.

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